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Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973)

In 1947 she married artist Eric Peters, another Viennese refugee. She also wrote and illustrated The Werewolf Hunter and Senorita Rio. After several years of working in editing and pencilling, Wilhelm was promoted to styling female Fiction House characters, including Jane Martin, a female pilot character working in the all-male aviation industry. While working at Fiction House, Wilheim experienced frequent sexual harassment from her male colleagues. She was hired alongside other female comic illustrators and writers, including Nina Albright and Fran Hopper. After moving to New York, Wilhelm applied to a position at Fiction House, a publishing company looking to replace its male artists who had been drafted into the war. While attempting to escape, Wilhelm was briefly arrested and subsequently released. When Wilhelm was sixteen, she received a letter from her parents, who had emigrated to America. She reportedly drew only a single illustration during this time, one of the biblical character Eve lying in a bed of thorns. She worked as a servant and nanny to the children of a German general. She arrived in Leeds, England, and lived there for two years waiting for her parents' escape. In 1938, at age fourteen, Wilheim was boarded onto the Kindertransport, leaving her parents behind in Nazi-occupied Austria. As a child, she frequented art museums and often drew as a hobby. Her father worked as a manager at the Holland America line, a transatlantic steamship company. Wilheim was raised by wealthy Jewish parents in Vienna in the 1930s.
