A German Jewish Doctor's Diary, Nathorff

• Hertha Nathorff was the niece of Albert Einstein
• She practiced medicine in Berlin and she recorded the constant abuse and humiliation inflicted on Jews as the result of Nazi anti-semitic policies
• However, Dr. Nathorff managed to escape Germany in 1939 before the outbreak of war
• April 1, 1933: The Jewish Boycott
• Young boys with signs saying "don't buy from Jews" and "don't go to Jewish doctors" lined the streets
• "Anybody who buys from a Jew is a traitor"
• April 25, 1933
• A letter from Charlottenburg municipal authorities: "You are requested to cease your activity as a senior doctor at the women's advice center."
• August 30, 1933
• The growing tense atmosphere in Germany is apparent
• October 2, 1934
• One of Nathorff's colleagues goes mad because she could no longer practice, and her license had been revoked
• December 30, 1934
• Growing amount of suicides by people who could no longer stand the continuing defamation and spite
• December 4, 1935
• Growing persecution intensifies
• One woman has her deceased grandmother dug up and is no longer allowed to work as an artist, and she must also give up her boyfriend who is a senior officer
• Nathorff says life is becoming a living death for them
• August 5, 1938
• All Jewish Doctors and Nurses lose their licenses to practice medicine via radio broadcast
• Nathorff says this is how we Jewish doctors learnt of our death sentence