Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (1994) 247-274
Keywords:
Jüdisches Krankenhaus (Berlin, Germany)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Medical care
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish children in the Holocaust
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Jews History 1939-1945
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Jews
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Jewish hospitals
Abstract:
Analyzes the records of the Welfare Department of the rump Jewish community administration in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin, which between 1942-45 took in Jewish children as well as (mainly) half-Jewish children who were considered Jewish according to the Nazi racial laws, and who for various reasons could not live with their families. Many of these children stayed in the hospital only briefly until they were deported. The Welfare Department tried to find (and sometimes to invent) an Aryan parent or other Aryan relatives and persuade them to take the children, thus affording them some protection. However, especially if the Aryan parent had remarried and founded a purely Aryan family, he or she was often unwilling to accept the stigma of a yellow star on the door. Often, also, the Gestapo opposed such a move. Nevertheless, some children were saved in this way, and 94 children, among them some full Jews, survived in the hospital until the end of the war.
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