After 3 years she suffered a physical breakdown. She is listed as Blue Booklet member No. 221 of "the persecuted people and prisoners of the Nazi system." and an honorary member of the Comite Sanitaire Suisse. a similar organization in Switzerland. Mrs. Nelson was an interpreter. after the war. for the Director of the Office of Economics. United States Military Government in Germany for a year. and then worked in Italy on International Refugee Organization problems before she established her own language school. In 1952 she and her son. Kurt. then 18. traveled to Mexico on the Sidarma Line vessel Andrea Gritti.