Pedro Wolfgang Bamberg describes the persecution of his physician grandfather, the family’s emigration to Argentina, and their return to Berlin in the 1960s.
Pedro Wolfgang Bamberg was born in San Rafael, Argentina, in 1949. His grandfather Gustav Bamberg was born in Saxony-Anhalt in 1873, began working as a gynaecologist in 1900, and opened a private clinic in Berlin’s Mitte district in 1914. With the Nazi takeover in 1933, it became more and more difficult for him to make a living. Despite becoming a Christian back in 1907, he was now increasingly ostracized because of his Jewish heritage. Forced to give up his practice in 1939, he and his wife emigrated to Argentina in 1940. In 1963, Pedro Wolfgang Bamberg moved with his family back to Berlin, where Gustav Bamberg died in 1965. Pedro Wolfgang Bamberg still lives in Berlin today. In 2018, he had a commemorative “stumbling block” laid at Wilhelmstrasse 143 in memory of his grandfather.