Stories of doctors

In 1939, there were also interventions against Jewish doctors. However, Jewish doctors played an important role in caring for the health of not only Jewish but also Slovak people. In the autumn of 1939, out of 28 doctors in the Zvolen district, 10 were Jews. Here are the stories of two of them who are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen.

MUDr. Zigmund Deutsch (1883, Lučenec - 1944, Zvolen)

He practiced medicine in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, he moved to Detva in July 1938. Every year, the county office extended his stay in Slovakia. From August 1942 he worked as a general practitioner and dentist in Očová. At the end of 1944, he was murdered at the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen.

MUDr. Zigmund Oppenheimer (1877, Lučenec - 1944, Zvolen)

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Budapest in 1902. He took part in the First World War. From 1904 he worked as a general practitioner and later as a railway dentist in Zvolen. In October 1940, he was banned from practicing medicine. In April 1943 he received a yellow ID. At the end of 1944 he was, together with his wife Elsa (1883) and daughter Lívia (1908), murdered at the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen.