Lebenswege deutsch-jüdischer Ärzte: berufsbiografisch und persönlich

The doctors presented here - Max Marcus, Julius Kleeberg and Siegfried Rosenbaum - belonged to an age group of highly qualified German Jews who had fled to Palestine/ Israel because of the Nazi persecution. There, they set standards in surgery, pediatrics and internal medicine and contributed to the international reputation of private and university-academic healthcare in Israel. From this point of view, they were extremely successful, but their biographies are overshadowed by traumatic experiences in Germany. They all had a lifelong feeling of ambiguity, of not belonging, or of the impression of living in several worlds. On the basis of extensive research, this article focuses on questions about the individual and exemplary of their life paths.