Testimony of Dr. Siegfried Ostrowski, born in 1887, regarding the situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939, 1933-1939

Testimony of Dr. Siegfried Ostrowski, born in 1887, regarding the situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939 Situation of the Jewish medical community in Berlin before 1933; propaganda against Jewish physicians after the Nazi rise to power, 30 January- 31 March 1933; first anti-Jewish boycott day; subsequent elimination of Jews from health care; dismissal of Jewish physicians; denunciations; arrests; accusations, 01 April-June 1933; attempts to contact medical communities abroad in order to find out about the possibilities of emigration, and subsequent arrests on the charge of alleged dissemination of atrocity propaganda; consequences of the Nuremberg laws for Jewish physicians; resignations of non-Jewish employees and resulting problems in finding suitable substitutes; forced sterilizations in order to prevent genetic diseases, September 1935; self-organization of the Jewish physicians after their exclusion from the German medical science community; deprivation of Jewish intellectual property: medical literature written by Jewish authors re-published under new names; increasing emigration of Jewish physicians; fourth Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law: loss of approbation for Jewish physicians, limits on the number of Jewish physicians allotted to the Jewish population, July 1938; after Kristallnacht, arrests of about 40,000 Jews throughout Germany; destruction of the Berlin Jewish Community Polyclinic, November 1938; appointment of Dr. Ostrowski as the new director of the Jewish Hospital Surgical Department; first returns of deportees to the Oranienburg camp with hospital gangrene, the extent of the infection, the problems of treatment, the final treatment success and the suspicion that the epidemic was induced by the Nazis; the aim of the Nazis to accelerate the emigration of Jews, 1939; the end of Dr. Ostrowski's employment at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin due to his emigration to Eretz Israel, 22 August 1939.