Berta Bergman

Berta Jozefa Bergman (née Bergmann; 10 May 1894–15 January 1945) was a Bosnian Jewish physician and partisan. She is also well known for being the first woman to finish high school in Bosnia.

Early life Berta Bergman was born 10 May 1894 in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary (modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina) to a family of German-speaking Ashkenazi Jews from Vienna. The eldest of four daughters, her parents Jozef and Ernestina had moved to Sarajevo during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia, as Jozef worked as a railway engineer for the Imperial Royal Austrian State of Railways. Despite the family having a strong financial income, Bergman's mother vowed to secure a higher education for her daughters.

Berta and her older sister Marija made headlines when they became the first female pupils at Mostar Gymnasium in 1905. In February 1912, the Croatian newspaper Narodna obrana published a report saying that Berta was the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina to graduate from school. She went on to study medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1918.