Biography
In September 1924 she began studying at the"What else is needed to not smile happily even at this victory? Not that pride takes over my spirit, oh no! And I consider it as a scientific triumph, but rather as an extraordinary triumph over the environment, prejudice, envy, the circumstances that have surrounded me, my poor state of health and therefore death, the time that has passed since the completion of my studies, etc., etc. (…) Times have changed very quickly. The man became familiar with the presence of Eva in the classrooms and today in all the faculties numerous female students are studying, we are happy to anticipate that next year two intelligent compatriots of ours will finish their medical studies.”In her speech notes, she acknowledges other female trailblazers in medicine.
"To the memory of Dr.She died only six years later. Bendahan had a daughter.Virginia Pereira Álvarez Virginia Pereira Álvarez (1888-12 April 1947) was the first Venezuelan woman to enroll in the medicine course in Venezuela. Career Pereira Álvarez was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar state, on 1888, and was a normalist teacher that grad ..., the first woman who attempted medical studies in Venezuela, but who finally carried them out in the United States;Lya Imber Lya Imber (1914–1981) was a pediatriacian. Biography Imber was born in Odessa, Ukraine on 17 March 1914 and died from cancer in Caracas, Venezuela on 23 September 1981. She was a prominent pediatrician vice president of UNICEF, and the fir ...g, who was the first woman to graduate as a doctor in Venezuela as a foreigner; and Elizabeth Garret Anderson, the first woman in the world to embrace Medical Sciences, thus signaling a new era for those of her sex."
Further reading
*''Through a narrow gate: Sara Bendahan'', by Sonia Hecker, published 2005 by the Polar Foundation in Caracas (in Spanish)References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bendahan, Sara 1906 births 1946 deaths Venezuelan Jews 20th-century Venezuelan physicians Venezuelan people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Venezuelan women physicians