Eponyms That Honor Jewish Dermatologists: A Celebration and a Remembrance Part Two: Jewish Physicians Who Practiced Between 1933 and 1945.

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Date publication

septembre 2023

Journal

Clinics in dermatology

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr LIPSKER Dan

Tous les auteurs :
Hoenig LJ, Lipsker D, Parish LC

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37777142

Résumé

This is the second installment of a three part contribution which highlights the achievements of Jewish dermatologists as reflected by eponyms that honor their names. It covers the period 1933-1945 when the Nazis took over Germany and how the lives of fourteen notable Jewish physicians, mostly in Germany, were impacted during the Holocaust. Many of them fled from the persecution bringing their academic talents to other lands such as the United States. At least one committed suicide (Fritz Juliusberg) and three others perished in the Holocaust (Abraham Buschke, Lucja Frey-Gottesman and Karl Herxheimer). They are remembered by eponyms including Neisser-Juliusberg pityriasis lichenoides chronica, Buschke- Ollendorff syndrome, Frey's syndrome, and Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction). It made little difference to the Nazis that several of the fourteen physicians had converted to Christianity. All were persecuted by the Nazis and had their professional careers destroyed. Two of the fourteen physicians lived outside of the Third Reich (Bruno Bloch and Emanuel Libman) and were spared the suffering endured by the other twelve. This tragic account of Jewish dermatologists during the Holocaust, and the eponyms that honor them, will continue in Part Three of this contribution.