Salomea Kempner (1880–1940?) was a Polish psychoanalyst, assistant physician at the Cantonal Insane Asylum in Rheinau, Switzerland. [1]
Salomea Kempner was from Plock, Poland. In 1921 she moved to Vienna, [1] and in June 1922 was elected a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. [2] In 1923 she moved to Berlin, where she worked at the Berlin Polyclinic, [1] and became a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society in January 1925. In 1935 she and Philipp Sarasin, with whom she had a longstanding relationship, visited Freud together. [3] She became a training analyst in 1936. [1] She supervised the training of Adelheid Koch. [4] She continued conducting psychoanalytic control sessions in her apartment until 1937, but disappeared without trace in the Warsaw Ghetto. [5]