"Krankenbehandler" im Jüdischen Krankenhaus Berlin und im Israelitischen Krankenhaus Hamburg zwischen 1938 und 1945

The Berlin Jewish hospital as well as the Israelite hospital in Hamburg never closed completely her gates in the whole Nazi era. Anyhow both houses stood under a huge pressure: They served not only as a hospital but also as collection camps and stopover for the transports of the Jews into the concentration camps; they became ghettos, however, and they were also shelters for Jews who hid away, simulated illnesses and survived with it the pursuit, perhaps. The care of Jewish patients pressed on the shoulders of only a few "carers of the sick" under the most difficult conditions. They suffered constant depression and compulsion, were increasingly even in mortal danger and were confronted with an ethical dilemma: they wanted to help, but they were often not able to save the lives of the patients. „Carers of the sick“ belonged to those Jewish representatives who were the last Jewish persons responsible who tried to protect the last not yet deported Jews.