German Hospitals

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 11

German Hospitals

DISMISSAL OF JEWS The severo loss to the German and Austrian hospitals caused by the wholesale dismissal of all professors, doctors and nurses of Jewish. blood was commented upon by Miss Anne-marie Tint* ncr, who arrived at Auckland last week to settle in the Dominion. Miss Tintner, who was born in Vienna, was a physical therapy nurse on tho staff of Vienna’s largest hospital for four years, but when, owing to her Jewish heritage, she had to leave, sho managed with considerable difficulty to obtain a passport to England and worked on the staff of a Loudon hoaXiital for six months before leaving for New Zealand. Her parents have remained in Vienna, and in spite of the fact that Miss Tintner’s fatner was an air pilot in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the war years, ho also was dismissed from his employment, Miss Tintner said. The nursing profession did not seem to have been greatly affected iu Vienna under Hitler’s regime except for the fact that whereas previously three years’ training had been necessary, Hitler had reduced the imriod to two years, continued Miss Tintner. All hospitals iu Vieuna were very up-to-date and modern in every way, but the fact that so many of the most outstanding pro fessors and doctors were of Jewish blood, and had therefore been dismissed had made severe inroads on the staffs.

The writing of letters to her j>arents in Vienna was referred to by Miss Tmtner as a very difficult matter. Care had to be exercised to write nothing that might cause trouble with the censors, who opened every letter. If she offended in this way, she said, her parents would immediately be imprisoned. Her brother is at present in England with a visitor’s permit and is waiting for permission to follow his sister to New Zealand. Neither she nor her brother can go to Germany or Austria again, as they were compelled to sign papers to that effect prior to leaving.