Doctors' group publishes archive of doctors registered in Nazi era
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A Berlin doctors?group has published an archive of all doctors registered in Germany between 1933 and the 1950s for use by historians, institutions, and members of the public who want to find out more about the fate of doctors who were persecuted during the Nazi period.
The task required the transfer of the paper files of 97 087 doctors to three DVDs. The move was initiated by the Berlin Association of Statuary Health Insurance Physicians (Kassen鋜ztliche Vereinigung (KV) Berlin) and financed by two medical charities, the Ludwig Sievers Foundation and the Hans Neuffer Foundation. The Berlin association is one of 23 public corporations that provide primary medical care in the region.
The president of the association, Manfred Richter-Reichhelm, said that the archive would enable relatives and friends of Jewish or other persecuted doctors to find out more about their fate.
By publishing the data, the association wants to involve today抯 German doctors in the job of recording the history of medicine under the Nazis. It wants to show that it is not prepared to ignore or turn a blind eye to the crimes that doctors committed against their colleagues in the 1930s and ?0s. The association started the project in 2002 when it was approached by Jewish doctors in Berlin.
The Berlin medical historian Johanna Bleker estimates that the archive contains data about 3600 Jewish doctors in Berlin alone. Most of them lost their licences to practise in 1938 but continued to be registered (even if they did not practise any more), emigrated, or were deported or killed in the concentration camps.
The historical value lies in the near completeness of the register, says Ms Bleker. For the first time medical historians will be able to determine the extent and quality of racial and political discrimination.
The three alphabetically organised DVDs carry a search function to enable researchers to search for doctors by surname, first initial, date of birth, and address of hospital or practice.
Private inquiries should be made to the German Federal Archive, Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin-Lichterfelde (tel 00 49 1888 7777 00; www.bundesarchiv.de). Historians and institutions should apply to KV Berlin, Masurenallee 6A, D-14507 Berlin (tel 0049 30 31 003 235; www.kvberlin.de).(Heidelberg Annette Tuffs)
The task required the transfer of the paper files of 97 087 doctors to three DVDs. The move was initiated by the Berlin Association of Statuary Health Insurance Physicians (Kassen鋜ztliche Vereinigung (KV) Berlin) and financed by two medical charities, the Ludwig Sievers Foundation and the Hans Neuffer Foundation. The Berlin association is one of 23 public corporations that provide primary medical care in the region.
The president of the association, Manfred Richter-Reichhelm, said that the archive would enable relatives and friends of Jewish or other persecuted doctors to find out more about their fate.
By publishing the data, the association wants to involve today抯 German doctors in the job of recording the history of medicine under the Nazis. It wants to show that it is not prepared to ignore or turn a blind eye to the crimes that doctors committed against their colleagues in the 1930s and ?0s. The association started the project in 2002 when it was approached by Jewish doctors in Berlin.
The Berlin medical historian Johanna Bleker estimates that the archive contains data about 3600 Jewish doctors in Berlin alone. Most of them lost their licences to practise in 1938 but continued to be registered (even if they did not practise any more), emigrated, or were deported or killed in the concentration camps.
The historical value lies in the near completeness of the register, says Ms Bleker. For the first time medical historians will be able to determine the extent and quality of racial and political discrimination.
The three alphabetically organised DVDs carry a search function to enable researchers to search for doctors by surname, first initial, date of birth, and address of hospital or practice.
Private inquiries should be made to the German Federal Archive, Finckensteinallee 63, 12205 Berlin-Lichterfelde (tel 00 49 1888 7777 00; www.bundesarchiv.de). Historians and institutions should apply to KV Berlin, Masurenallee 6A, D-14507 Berlin (tel 0049 30 31 003 235; www.kvberlin.de).(Heidelberg Annette Tuffs)