title: The fate of Hungarian Jewish dermatologists during the Holocaust Part 1: Six refugees who fled.
abstract: From the times of Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian Jewish physicians have significantly contributed to the development of dermatology. Part 1 of this special report highlights some of the early Jewish dermatologists in Hungary. It also tells the stories of five Hungarian Jewish dermatologists who fled anti-Semitism in Hungary, or other European countries, between 1920 and 1941: Frederick Reiss, Emery Kocsard, Stephen Rothman, Peter Flesch, and George Csonka. A sixth Hungarian dermatologist, Tibor Benedek, was persecuted by the Nazis, because he had a Jewish wife, forcing the couple to flee Germany. Part 2 will focus on the ordeal faced by Hungarian Jewish dermatologists who did not leave their homeland during World War II.
authors.forename: Walter H C
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Burgdorf
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bock
authors.forename: Leonard J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Hoenig
authors.forename: Lawrence Charles
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Parish
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D001317:Austria; D002681:China; D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006814:Hungary; D007585:Jews / Q000266:history*; D011287:Prejudice / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D012036:Refugees / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D047789:World War II