Given name: Unknown Family name: Wertheim

  • YES
  • Male
  • Wertheim
  • No
  • From Warsaw
  • Jewish
  • higher
  • a doctor, the head of the 1st department at the hospital in Czyste, of surgery department at the hospital in Stawki Street; long before the war - in his childhood he stopped to be Jewish. He went out of the ghetto, but as he was known on the 'Aryan side' - blackmailed by one of the doormen at the 'Omega' clinic - killed Weller; the head of the surgery department at the hospital in Leszno Street No. 1, a Catholic convert - since 1938 the head of the hospital in Czyste. Boasted of his Polish origins, told stories about his grandfather being a banker of the Polish January Insurrection. Unpopular among the Jewish patients - on the 'Aryan' side, his daughters-in-law, who were Polish, helped him. He showed symptoms of fear and pathology - arrested by the Germans he confessed and gave the addresses of his convert sons, who were killed; killed in 1942.

  • in the ghetto, deportation
  • physicians, medical, death
  • Iop2YV03/2358

  • Sabina Gurfinkiel-Glocerowa