First trans person to undergo gender reassignment survived the Nazis

This is very interesting. The first male-to-female gender reassignment surgery was performed in 1931 on Dora Richter, a transgender woman. The Nazis destroyed the Institute of Sex Research where she worked and had her surgery. This included destroying the Institute's records. People thought that the Nazis killed Richter. But last year, a researcher discovered that Richter escaped, successfully survived the Nazi era, and died in her 70s during the 1960s.
Dora Richter Lived - Philadelphia Gay News
Dora Richter was a German transgender woman born in Bohemia on the 16th of April, 1892 — and she is the first known trans woman to have had gender reconstructive surgery at the very dawn of such procedures. Think of her when you hear people try to say that being trans is some very new thing.
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On the 6th of May, 1933, the Deutsche Studentenschaft (German Student Union) and Nazi Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) raised the Institut, looting and destroying much of the contents. Thousands of books, journals, and other materials were burned in the street outside of the Institut.

It was believed that Dora Richter also perished in those raids, either in the raids, or, perhaps, in custody after the ransacking. With the advent of the war knowledge of Dora Richter’s life was all but lost and forgotten. But Dora Richter Lived.
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In 2023, a researcher named Clara Hartmann was collecting information about forgotten trans figures, and was following a lead on Dora Richter. . . . By May of 1946, Dora Richter would reside in Nuremberg. She would live there for an additional 20 years, finally passing away on the 26th of April, 1966 in Allersberg, Germany. She was 74 years old.