Background
Grünfeld was born in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia.
psychiatrist university professor
Grünfeld was born in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia.
University of Oslo.
He was also a recognized expert in forensic psychiatry, often employed by Norwegian courts to examine insanity defense pleas. In 1939, when he was seven, he and 34 other Jewish children were separated from their families in an attempt by Nansenhjelpen to rescue them from the early manifestations of the Holocaust. Once in Norway, Grünfeld was first placed at the Jewish children"s home in Oslo, then lived as a foster child with a Jewish family in Trondheim before returning to the orphanage.
He returned to the children"s home in 1946.
The Jewish community funded his education. He was awarded his doctorate in medicine in 1973 based on a dissertation on abortion.
In 1993, he was made professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo. Grünfeld was noted for his academic contributions within sexology, on the issues of abortion and euthanasia, and within forensic psychology.
In addition to his advocacy and teaching, he acted as an expert witness in criminal cases, and as a consultant on human relations and sexology for Oslo Helserådaughter
His dissertation influenced the reform of abortion laws in Norway. Among other things, she found that his mother had worked as a prostitute and was murdered in the death camp at Sobibor.
During the occupation of Norway, Grünfeld avoided capture and deportation by fleeing with members of the Norwegian Resistance in 1942 to neutral Sweden, where he stayed until the war ended.