The Emigration of Germany's Jewish Dermatologists in the Period of National Socialism - Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention

Year: 2003 Source: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, v.17, no.5, (September 2003), p.525-530 SIEC No: 20040452

The authors describe the experiences of Jewish dermatologists in Nazi Germany. Based on the evidence available for 432 (76%) of the 569 Jewish dermatologists in Germany at the time, 10% were murdered in concentration camps, 10% died a natural death, 13% died by suicide, & 4% survived the Third Reich. After 1933, 49% were able to emigrate from Germany. (14 refs)

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The Emigration of Germany’s Jewish Dermatologists in the Period of National Socialism

Eppinger SMeurer MScholz A