Handbook

Object | Accession Number: 2016.354.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Home health care manual given and inscribed to Marianne Schüler by Martin Gerson, a pioneer in the Hachshara movement, who knew her when she was in Gut Winkel, a Zionist youth camp in Germany. Martin Gerson did not survive the war. Marianne emigrated to the Dominican Republic in 1940.
Title: Der neue hausarzt, handbuch für gesunde und kranke tage, von dr. med. G. Becher. Mit 4 mehrfarbigen und 8 einfarbigen tafeln, sowie 78 zeichnungen im text.
Date: publication/distribution: 1939-1942
Geography: publication: Leipzig (Germany)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Irene Newhouse
Contributor: Author: Gottfried Becher
Publisher: Philipp Reclam Verlag

Language: German
Classification: Books and Published Materials
Category: Books and pamphlets
Object Type: Handbooks and manuals (lcsh)
Physical Description: Book ; 346, [1] p. illustrated, plates, 21 cm. (8.250 x 5.500)
Contents:
I. t. Der verlauf des lebens in gesunden und kranken tagen
II. t. Hausärztliches lexikon mit abbildungen
Notes : Blank page for notes ([347])

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Irene Newhouse, daughter of Marianne Schüler.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Related Materials: Additional Accession Number: 2020.340