Jewish medical refugees in India (fwd to RSG)

[David Magier]

Dominik,
I am forwarding this note to the mailing list of the Rajasthan Studies 
Group, which has some members who may be knowledgeable in this area.

David Magier

--On Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:42 PM +0100 Dominik Wujastyk 
<ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> I forward this query on behalf of a colleague at UCL.
> Kindly CC me (d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk) in any answers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dominik Wujastyk
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Carole Reeves <c.reeves at ucl.ac.uk>
> To: histmed at listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:08:01 +0100
> Subject: [Histmed] Jewish medical refugees in India
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am looking for historical material / scholars who have information about
> Jewish medics who took refuge in Rajasthan under the protection of the
> Maharaja of Bikaner pre and during World War II. They include: Richard
> James
> Weingarten, Chief MO of Bikaner; Fritz Donath (radiologist); Josef Tauber;
> Alfred Hollositz (dental surgeon); Max Scheck; Max Henn (chemist); Emma
> Henn
> (nurse); Robert Heilig who was in Mysore and had a distinguished career in
> Jaipur; also Dr (?Joseph) Wolfe.
>
> Any information would be most gratefully received.
>
> Dr Carole Reeves
> Outreach Historian
> The Wellcome Trust Centre
> for the History of Medicine at UCL
> 183 Euston Road
> London NW1 2BE
> Tel: +44 (0)207 679 8135
> Email: c.reeves at ucl.ac.uk
> Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed