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Dr Bongdivich’s Story, Amidst the Rise of Power of the Nazi’s

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Background: Dr. Bongdivich, a happily married 24-year-old Jewish, living in Germany, in 1933 had a daughter. He also had a Master’s Degree to practice medicine through his profession after attending Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany for several years explains his story and experience of living in Germany whilst the Nazi party and Hitler held dictatorship upon the land.

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I break lose ‘The real life of a Jewish doctor under Hitler’s reign’

January – March 1933

I owned a successful clinic in Hamburg with my wife was pregnant and 2-year-old daughter, life was just at its peak of greatness. Hitler was a young bright leader, who I believed was going to change the future of all of Germany and become our saviour, I had personally voted for him, as he promised to remove the great depression and make our land loved again. All these hopes were tarnished days after electing Adolf Hitler as Führer of Germany in 1933, with the 43.9% of votes won by the Nazi party as it was the majority. As two weeks after the election, Hitler passed an ‘Enabling Act’ on 23rd of March which gained support from all non-socialist parties, this had given Hitler dictatorial powers. Within months, Nazi’s removed all other competition. Hitler had begun his reign as the dictator of Germany causing outrage and insane attitude changes towards us the Jew’s. He had begun a segregation between us the Jew’s and the German’s as he deemed us the inferior race. Life became difficult, I started earning less, and was given many deals to sell my clinic to the Aryan race for a 1/8 of the price I had put into starting it. Making my life a living Hell. Hitler had gone from this bold young man who promised a way out of the great depression and became an arrogant selfish German. I personally responded in protesting against dictatorship due to the struggle he brought upon our race, of being looked down at. Many German’s minds were being filled with hatred towards us, as the tale was told that we killed Christ and used Christian children’s blood for ritual acts, when in reality we never did such sin, causing the once formed love towards Hitler to burn into ashes and be torn down by his despicable acts towards our race.

September – December 1935

Within several years of Hitler’s rise amongst the Nazi party and reign all over Germany, the Nazi soldiers shut down my clinic, with a sign stating that they’d not allow me to reopen the clinic unless I performed sterilizations upon my own people the entire Jewish race, as this would prevent them from having offspring. Which required me to provide them with fake news that they had ‘abnormal disabilities’ and needed to obtain the sterilizations in order to remove it. This had all occurred in contrast with the Nuremberg Laws being established by the Nazi Party. I had 2 Jewish daughters now and was living on the bear minimum as I did not take money in exchange for treatment from my fellow Jew’s. Germans had entirely stopped coming to my clinic, due to the spread of rumours that Jewish medical units are under-trained and under-qualified for the pure and higher-class Germans. All the hatred was controlled by our dictator Hitler, who didn’t approve of us Jew’s as a race. For generations my family had qualified in Medicine and owned our family clinic in order to provide food on the table and a shelter over our head, but this was slowly tarnishing as I was earning barely enough to even pay for my own two daughters basic needs of nappies, baby food and milk powder. My wife would often go to sleep hungry, and I would feel the burden and guilt of being at fault of this, when in reality this was all caused by Hitler, who discriminated against us Jews. I had become sleepless, and extremely skinny, more and more clients had stopped coming to my clinic. They stopped as I started looking worse and worse, big bags under my eyes, my bones extremely visible. My wife and children had come to extreme poverty and I had to live with it each and every day, I had to witness the struggle they faced and see my daughters crying for food, my wife had to get an abortion after finding out she was 2 months pregnant, we decided we weren’t financially stable enough to allow another child to burden upon us, it would make us completely broke. At last we had to rent out our house to other Jews, who paid enough for our family to start running again, food on the table and a roof over our heads. More clients also came along with this change, the Jew’s patients had now started paying me for my services. Which I was truly grateful for.

January 1938

In January 1938, I was told that my medical certificate would be closed, however if I shut down my clinic which provided free health care for the Jews I would have an option to leave with my family. So, I put my hand on my heart and did what was best for my family, leaving the terror and daily agony of living in Germany. We we’re shipped to the United Kingdom, where I opened a new clinic in order to support my family.

November 1938

It was November the 10th and whilst listening to the radio I heard about the traumatizing experience my fellow Jewish brothers and sisters experienced, and felt helpless, as they had no option to free-healthcare nor were the law forces provided any help.

I survived, I survived the Third Reich, because I escaped.

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