Article ID: CBB001420796

Die Bedeutung der jüdischen Krankenpflege im Ersten Weltkrieg am Beispiel des Stuttgarter jüdischen Schwesternheims (2011)

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The history of Jewish nursing in World War I has so far not been central to medical history research. Rosa Bendit's war diary is still the only source available on the voluntary service Jewish nurses provided during World War I. Their number was small compared to that of nurses in general. Jewish nursing in Germany has hardly been researched. Jewish nurses, like their Christian colleagues, took on wartime nursing tasks voluntarily. This paper will focus on the experiences of the nurses who were sent to various locations in East and West by the Stuttgart Jewish Nurses' Home. Based on quotations from the war diary their position within the medical service will be described, compared and analyzed. The paper draws attention to special characteristics in the comparison of Jewish and Christian nurses and explores issues such as religious observance, religious discrimination, patriotism and differences in the evaluation of the nurses' work. A brief outline of the history of the Stuttgart Jewish Nurses' Home illustrates their working conditions. The Jewish nurses applied themselves with as much effort and devotion as their Christian counterparts. Although there were only few of them, the Jewish nurses managed to establish a recognized position for themselves within the medical service. The history of Jewish nursing in Stuttgart ended in 1941 when the Jewish Nurses' Home was dissolved by the Nazis and four nurses were murdered in concentration camps.

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Authors & Contributors
Hallett, Christine E.
Margaret H. Harrow
Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska
Annett Büttner
Alison S. Fell
Jane Potter
Concepts
Antisemitism
Nurses and nursing
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Jews
World War I
National Socialism
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Canada
Netherlands
Russia
Hungary
Institutions
Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
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