Reflections on my father's experience with doctors during the Shoah (1939-1945). Interview by Harold J. Bursztajn.
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چکیده
What follows are some thoughts, occasioned by a recent three-hour filmed interview with my father, Abraham Bursztajn, conducted by Dr. Mark Weisstuch on behalf of the Steven Spielberg Foundation. The foundation, created by the film director Steven Spielberg after the making of the film “Schindler’s List,” is dedicated to chronicling the memories of Jewish survivors of the Nazi attempt at systematic destruction of European Jewry during World War II (1939-1945), the Shoah. Here I will focus on how two physicians, working under the shadow of death with limited resources, were able to comfort and even promote hope and healing. My father’s interview had some special urgency: an exhibition on the Lodz, Poland ghetto at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel’s Jerusalem, was scheduled to end by September. My father is one of the few surviving members of a lost chapter of that ghetto’s history: the Jewish Resistance. He is now 80; he had a quadruple bypass one and one-half years ago, three years after the death of my mother, Miriam Briks Feigala Bursztajn, who was his comrade in the underground and then his partner in life for 49 years.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of clinical ethics
دوره 7 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996