Eponyms That Honor Jewish Dermatologists: A Celebration and a Remembrance Part Three: Jewish Physicians Who Practiced During the Holocaust and in its Aftermath.

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Date publication

février 2024

Journal

Clinics in dermatology

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr LIPSKER Dan

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

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38340908

Résumé

Part III of this contribution continues to celebrate the many contributions that Jewish physicians have made to advance the specialty of dermatology, as reflected by eponyms that honor their names. Part I covered the years before 1933, a highly productive period of creativity by Jewish dermatologists especially in Germany and Austria. The lives of 17 Jewish physicians and their eponyms were presented in Part I. Part II focused on the years from 1933 to 1945, when the Nazis rose to power in Europe and how their anti-Semitic genocidal policies impacted leading Jewish dermatologists caught within the Third Reich. Fourteen Jewish physicians and their eponyms were discussed in Part II. Part III continues the remembrance of the Holocaust era by looking at the careers and eponyms of an additional 13 Jewish physicians who contributed to dermatology during the period of 1933-1945. Two of these thirteen physicians, the pathologist Ludwig Pick (1868-1944) and the neurologist Arthur Simons (1877-1942) perished in the Holocaust. They are remembered by the following eponyms of interest to dermatologists: Lubarsch-Pick syndrome, Niemann-Pick disease and Barraquer-Simons syndrome. Four of the thirteen Jewish physicians escaped the Nazis: Felix Pinkus (1868-1947), Herman Pinkus (1905-1985), Arnault Tzanck (1886-1954) and Erich Urbach (1893-1946). Eponyms that honor their names include nitidus Pinkus, fibroepithelioma of Pinkus, Tzanck test, Urbach-Wiethe disease, Urbach-Koningstein technique, Oppenheim-Urbach disease, Extracellular cholesterinosis of Karl-Urbach. The other seven Jewish physicians lived outside the reach of the Nazis, either in Canada, the United States, or Israel. Their eponyms are discussed in this contribution. Part III also discusses eponyms that honor seven contemporary Jewish dermatologists who practiced dermatology after 1945 and who continue the nearly 200 years of Jewish contribution to the development of the specialty. They are A Bernard Ackerman (1936-2008), Irwin M. Braverman, Sarah Brenner, Israel Chanarin, Maurice L. Dorfman, Dan Lipsker, and Ronni Wolf. Their eponyms are Ackerman syndrome, Braverman sign, Brenner sign, Chanarin-Dorfman Syndrome, Lipsker criteria of the Schnitzler syndrome, and Wolf's isotopic response.