Else Levy

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Else Philippine Levy (born June 11, 1891 in Berlin , † after November 1942) was a German doctor .

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She was the daughter of the surgeon William Levy and his wife Anna, née Fränkel. After completing her schooling, she studied medicine and received her license to practice medicine in October 1925. In the same year she was awarded the State Medical Prize of the Berlin University as a study prize. From 1927 she was employed as an assistant doctor in an ear, nose and throat clinic in Berlin-Mitte and from October 1, 1931, she was a specialist in ENT diseases. Between 1928 and 1931 she wrote numerous scientific articles for medical journals.

Memorial plaque at the Jewish Hospital in Auguststrasse

Due to her Jewish origins, she was withdrawn from the health insurance fund on July 1, 1933, in accordance with the ordinance on the admission of doctors to work for the health insurance funds . She could only treat Jewish patients.

Since 1934 she worked as a doctor for ear, nose and throat diseases at the Polyclinic of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. In July 1938 she became head of the ENT and allergology departments at the clinic. In the Berlin telephone directory of 1941, her name is given as “Else Sara Levy”, since German Jews had to identify themselves by their (Jewish) first name under the name change ordinance of August 1938.

In autumn 1942 the hospital was occupied by the Gestapo and some of the doctors and nursing staff were deported. Levy went into hiding in November 1942, but her hiding place was revealed. Else Philippine Levy's further fate is unknown.

Publications

  • What diagnostic significance does the blood count have for otogenic diseases? , in: Journal for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine , Springer, 1926 (dissertation)
  • with Ernst Fränkel: Prevention and treatment of allergic diseases through filter pre-storage, In: Münchener Medical Wochenschrift , 1928, p. 696
  • with Ernst Fränkel: Experiences with fever apparatus for allergic diseases . In: Klinische Wochenschrift , 1928, p. 2292
  • with Ernst Fränkel: Allergy and modern methods for diagnosing and treating allergic diseases. In: Medical Clinic , 1929, No. 8
  • Rare complication after extirpation of the larynx . In: The ear , nose and throat doctor , overview reports and presentations. 1930, p. 90
  • Temporary amaurosis with septal anesthesia . In: Central sheet for ear, nose and throat medicine , Springer-Verlag, 1930, pp 109th
  • Tinnitus Aurium of Allergic Origin . In: Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, Otology and their Frontier Areas , 23: 410, 1932

literature

  • Rebecca Schwoch : Berlin Jewish Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and their Fate under National Socialism: A Memorial Book . Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-941450-08-5
  • Rivka Elkin: The Jewish Hospital in Berlin between 1938 and 1945 , Hentrich, 1993
  • Dagmar Hartung-von Doetinchem: Destroyed Progress: The Jewish Hospital in Berlin, 1756, 1861, 1914, 1989 , Hentrich, 1989
  • Daniel B. Silver: Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis , 2004
  • The Survival of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin , in: Yearbook 1993 , Leo Baeck Institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemiker-Zeitung, Volume 49, Issue 2, p. 733.
  2. ↑ See also the prohibition of cooperation between Aryan and non-Aryan doctors of August 10, 1933, which basically affected the practice community.
  3. ↑ See also Udo Benzenhöfer : Jüdische Ärzte in Hannover 1933 to 1945. Wetzlar 2000. See also the current research project of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Bavaria (KVB) Jewish Doctors in Bavaria. National Socialist Persecution - Emigration - Reparation (PDF; 131 kB) of the Chair for Modern History and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)
  4. ↑ Rivka Elkin: The Jewish Hospital in Berlin between 1938 and 1945 , Hentrich, 1993, ISBN 978-3-89468-049-7 , p. 105
  5. ↑ Charlotte Meyer: About allergic irritations of the inner ear. In: ORL, Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica, Head and Neck Surgery, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1940/1941, pp. 92-106.
  6. ↑ Hartmut Jäckel, Hermann Simon: Berliner Juden 1941, names and fates: the last official telephone book of the Reichspostdirektion Berlin , Volume 4 of the Centrum Judaicum series of publications, Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-42-2 , p. 77
  7. ↑ Monika Richarz: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland: Self-testimonies to Social History, Volume 3 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1976, p. 432
  8. ^ Archives for Hygiene and Bacteriology , Volumes 113-114, Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1935
personal data
SURNAME Levy, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Else Philippine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century