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Doctors also worked in the work crews, including Dr. Blatt, Dr. Goldring,
Dr. Solomir, Dr. Dawidsohn, Dr. Rudow, Dr. Goldberg, Dr. Günsburg and
others.
Later, more doctors from the provinces joined them, but they were in the
ghetto for only a very short time (Dr. Weinreich, Dr. Gurwitsch and others).
In time a dental clinic was also set up. Dr. Tumarkin worked there as senior
consultant; Dr. Tscherfas also worked there, as did the dental technician Iwanowitsch.
The dental technician Joselsohn (from Liepāja) worked in the German ghetto.
There were also dentists in the satellite camps: Noim (Jr. and Sr.), Berniker,
Scheinesohn and others.
Before the liquidation of the ghetto, all of the doctors were assigned to various
satellite camps (see the chapter "Satellite Camps – Small Concentration
Camps").
It is difficult for me as a layman to judge the performance of individual doctors
correctly, but I can certainly say one thing and it is probably everyone's
opinion: that all of the doctors sacrificed themselves for us, and in the history
of our ghetto they can claim a special debt of gratitude.
Sadly, only a few of them survived.
Old Professor Mintz died doing hard labor and wearing prisoners' clothing
in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. Solomir, Dr. Gitelsohn, Dr.
Berniker, Dr. Kretzer, Dr. Pewsner and others also lost their lives. I know
nothing about the fate of Dr. Joseph; in any case, since my liberation I have
heard nothing more about him. The dentist Dr. Tumarkin had an especially
terrible death: before he died he lost his sanity. The dentists Berniker and
Scheinesohn are also no longer alive.
And now I come to the subject of medical services in the German ghetto. I
know little about it as such, but I do know this much: that from the beginning
to the liquidation, the Jew Dr. Aufrecht worked there as Chief Physician. Several
Jewish doctors were his assistants. I was told that he had a very arrogant
manner and no understanding of our Jewish affairs at all. He was a man of
coarse character and middling intelligence; being a willing tool, he always had
support from the commandants Krause and Roschmann.
In the summer one would see the little doctor, wearing his glasses and an
elegant white suit, in the company of the murderers. A well-equipped outpatient
clinic was set up for the German Jews at 40 Ludzas Street. Nurse Kartun
worked there as an assistant, and she really did a great deal of good for the