In her early career , she was n't especially interested in the psychology of homosexual people . After teaching for only one year at the Maryland College for Women , she contracted tuberculosis and spent the next year in a sanatorium in Arizona . After her recovery she began teaching at Whittier College in Southern California . Then in 1937 Gentry received a fellowship to the Berlin Institute of Psychotherapy , at which point she left Whittier . Evelyn lived with a Jewish family while she studied in Europe . While there , she got a first-hand look at the rise of Adolf Hitler and witnessed such events as the Kristallnacht . She learned later that the Jewish family she lived with was killed in concentration camps . Before returning home , Evelyn went on a group tour to Russia , arriving just after a major purge . The events that Evelyn would see in Europe ultimately sparked her desire to help overcome social injustice
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Evelyn Hooker