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By Eduard Seidler. 494 pp. Bonn, Germany, Bouvier Verlag, 2000. DM 58. ISBN 3-416-02919-4.

Seidler's extraordinary "memory book," written both in German and in English, tells the story of Jewish pediatricians in the German Reich during the Nazi period, and includes biographical data on more than 750 Jewish German pediatricians of that era. Their names are listed in the "biographical documentation" section (printed only in German), along with relevant personal and professional data. These pediatricians, the author tells us, "were outlawed, they fled or were murdered." Between 1933 and 1942, approximately 4000 physicians emigrated from Germany to the United States; of these, 70 percent were Jewish (174 were pediatricians). The biography does not restrict . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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