Professor in Kharkov

Abstract

The director of the Ukrainian Physics-Technical Institute in Kharkov, Professor Sinielnikov, had obtained for the Houtermans a rather large apartment with rooms on two different floors where they lived with Charlotte Schlesinger, with the nickname “Bimbus”. She was a distinguished pianist emigrated not long before from Germany. Shortly after their arrival she got a very serious form of dysentery that kept the Houtermans in great anxiety.