Charlotte Gerson (1922 - 2019)

Born 27 Mar 1922 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany

Ancestors

Died 10 Feb 2019 at age 96 in Italy

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Biography

Charlotte was born in 1922. She was the daughter of Max Gerson and Margaret Gretchen Hope.

She married Irwin Straus and had two children, Howard and Peggy.^[1]

She founded the Gerson Institute, a non-profit agency committed to preserving and building on her father's legacy of nutritional healing through education.

Charlotte, who like her father, suffered from migraines stuck to the Gerson dietary principles as much as she could as they kept her headaches away. She passed away in 2019 in Italy where she lived with her daughter. She was just shy of 97 years old when she passed.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Staus, Howard, Dr. Max Gerson, Healing the Hopeless, Quarry Press, 2002, pp. 56 (dob), 182 (marriage).
2. ↑ https://www.gersongirls.com/gerson.html

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQTN-MF5 : 28 July 2019), Max B Gerson, Assembly District 15, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-1338, sheet 12B, line 54, family 248, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2655. Max is medical doctor with private practice; Gertrude is a milliner and Charlotte is working as a waitress.

Max B Gerson Head Male 58 Germany

Gretchen Gerson Wife Female 47 Germany

Gertrude Gerson Daughter Female 21 Germany

Charlotte Gerson Daughter Female 18 Germany

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