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Article: A Jewish haven in Nazi Berlin.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 29, 2004
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It defies credence, but when Russian troops marched into Berlin on April 24, 1945, they found 800 Jews alive and well in Berlin's Jewish hospital. The inhabitants were doctors, nurses and patients. The hospital and the Jewish cemetery at Weissensee were the sole Jewish facilities left in the city that Joseph Goebbels had declared "Judenrein" - cleansed of Jews - in 1943.
How this isolated institution and its staff served, with extraordinary dedication, and managed to survive despite the constant terrible dread of deportation, or execution for the slightest infringement of rule or Nazi whim, is the ...