 He received the visa in August 1939 and sailed out of Norway on 19 August on the SS <unk> , the last ship to leave for the United States before the war began on 3 September . He began teaching at The New School , where he remained until May 1941 , living first at <unk> Kessel Street , Forest Hills , Queens , where he conducted experiments on mice with cancer , injecting them with bions . He built a small Faraday cage to examine the vapors and lights he said the bions were producing . In October 1939 his secretary Gertrud <unk> introduced him to Ilse Ollendorf , 29 years old at the time . Reich was still in love with Lindenberg , but Ollendorf started organizing his life for him , becoming his bookkeeper and laboratory assistant . They began living together in the Kessel Street house on Christmas Day 1939 . She was eight weeks pregnant , but according to Turner he insisted that she have an abortion . Five years later , in 1944 , they had a son , Peter , and were married in 1946 . 
