A 102-year-old doctor who was denied a Ph.D by the Nazis because her mother was Jewish is set to get the degree now, almost 80 years later. Ingeborg Sylim-Rapoport, now a retired neonatologist living in Berlin, had submitted her doctoral thesis on diptheria in 1938 — but because she was deemed "non-Aryan" under Hitler's race laws, she wasn't allowed to give her oral defense. She left for the United States later that year and worked as a pediatrician in Ohio, before she moved back to communist East Berlin in 1952. Recently, after officials at the University Clinic in Hamburg-Eppendorf learned her story, they decided to let her finish her degree. "I am happy and proud, but this is not about me," she told NBC News. "This is in commemoration of those who did not make it this far."
