ABSTRACT
Early in life Kurt Lewin was already thinking about what he called the individual's "life space", and how it was influenced by the groupings (such as family and ethnicity), and the culture one was born into. It is a representation of the "space of free movement" of a Jewish male in post WWI Germany, where prejudice was literally legalized. As student Norman Maier put it, The interaction between Lewin and this group of students was so free, and the disagreement so intense, that Norman Maier remember them as the most stimulating experiences he have ever had. In Germany it was almost impossible for Jewish citizens to liquefy assets and raise the funds needed for immigration; in the United States it was almost impossible for Jewish immigrants to be granted admittance, despite their obvious need. Despite these barriers, Lewin and his wife and daughter made it to the US His extended family did not.
