Jacob Altaras

Jakob Altaras (born October 12, 1918 in Split , Dalmatia , † December 6, 2001 ) was a Yugoslav - German radiologist .

Life

Jakob Altaras was the youngest of six brothers. After graduating from high school , he studied medicine at the University of Bari , where he passed his state examination in 1944 . After the Second World War he repeated the medical state examination at the University of Zagreb in 1946 . Altaras worked as a research assistant for radiology and in the military hospital in Zagreb. There he became the head of the Center for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. In 1958 Altaras completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer at the medical faculty of the University of Zagreb. In 1958 he married the architect Thea Fuhrmann . The marriage produced the actress and director Adriana Altaras , who refers to her family history (s) in her books. From 1960 he also ran a private practice. After Altaras was told that his brother Silvio was not murdered by the Germans or Ustascha but from among his own partisans because of internal disputes shortly before the end of the war , he brought charges, with the result that the Communist Party now persecuted him. Altaras was brought to a show trial on the pretext of having committed anti-state and anti-socialism acts and fled Yugoslavia in 1964 for fear of imprisonment. In Switzerland he worked at the Central Institute for Radiological Diagnostics at the University of Zurich until 1966 . The family should follow. However, the Yugoslav authorities revoked his wife's passport. In 1966 he moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Commitment and honors

In 1978 Altaras founded a Jewish community in Gießen , which through his efforts and that of his wife Thea Altaras was given its own synagogue again in 1995 , a translocated half-timbered state synagogue from Wohra . For his social commitment he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class by Federal President Roman Herzog on October 4, 1995 . In Gießen there is Altarasstraße, in the residential area on the site of the former mountain barracks .

Resistance to the National Socialists

Altaras was active in the Yugoslav resistance against the National Socialists . He managed to save the Torah scroll and other ritual objects from the fire from the burning synagogue in Split . Altaras let himself be secretly smuggled into a concentration camp to find out how inmates could escape. In 1943 he smuggled 40 children from Croatia, which was allied with the German Reich , across the Adriatic to Italy , from where they continued on to Palestine. In the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial , trees commemorate this act.

Fonts (selection)

• Radiological atlas of the colon and rectum . Urban and Fischer, Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3-541-10001-9 .
• The contrast medium examinations of the gastrointestinal tract. Development and Outlook. 76th German X-ray Congress, May 1995, MTRA training conference . Bergauf-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-00-000574-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jakob Altaras in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Jakob Altaras on the website of the Giessen Jewish Community. Retrieved January 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Adriana Altaras: Tito's glasses: The story of my grueling family . 3. Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jewish Community Giessen - Dr. Thea Altaras. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Announcement from the Ordenskanzlei in the Office of the Federal President
5. ↑ University City of Gießen - The Magistrate - Land Surveying Office: Official Notice - Designation of Streets , May 8, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2019