Marianne Buchwalter, z”l, passed away Feb. 17, 2022, at age 97. Marianne is loved and remembered by her children, Juliet (Doug Strohl) Buchwalter, Andrew (Kate Rowe) Buchwalter, and Charles (Lisa) Buchwalter; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

The funeral was Feb. 20 at Ahavai Shalom Cemetery.

(The following is drawn from an obituary written for the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center.) 
Marianne Buchwalter, z”l, passed away Feb. 17, 2022, two months shy of her 98th birthday. 
The OPC Board would like to acknowledge Marianne for her presence and commitment to the development of our analytic society from our very beginning, the early study group, followed by the Oregon Psychoanalytic Foundation and today’s OPC. Her loss was not only for us, but for many cultural institutes all over Portland, where she was an ardent member, contributor and advocate.
Marianne was born in Berlin and had a happy childhood until Hitler came to power. She was Jewish and wrote in her autobiography, Memories of a Berlin Childhood, “in early October of 1938, we vacated the apartment where I lived 8 of my 14 years.” Among other things, an unexpected letter came informing her parents that “I, Marianne Vali Schybilski, a student in the … fourth year of high school, need not return. I am no longer welcome, I was kicked out.”
In 1939 (the last year that Jews were able to leave Germany and escape concentration camps and death) her family arrived in Portland. She graduated from Grant High School in 1941, attended Reed College and finished her undergraduate studies at Stanford in 1945. She attended the Columbia University School of Social Work in NYC, graduating in 1948 with a master’s degree in Psychiatric Social Work and then studied at the London Tavistock Clinic. While at Columbia, she met and married Fred Buchwalter in 1948. They moved to Portland and raised four children. Fred had a successful business, and like Marianne, was involved in many cultural institutes in the city. He was the president of OPC’s early study group, and with Dr. Siegfried Berthelsdorf and Roscoe Nelson, drew up the legal papers to create the Psychoanalytic Society.
My husband and I were friends with Marianne and Fred since the ’60s when my own involvement with psychoanalysis and our society was intense,” writes friend Selma Duckler. “She was passionate about psychoanalysis, and especially about the development of it in Portland. Always an activist, she was supportive in every aspect. They were both generous with time, involvement, money. When I brought analysts to speak in Portland, she opened her home and entertained them. A wonderful cook, she did it all herself.”
“Her vitality, energy, intellect and love for psychoanalysis were an inspiration to us, and I write this, for memoriam, but also that it is our inheritance from her, and I feel it is everywhere in this group we have become. She was so proud of the development she lived to see.”