The daughter of a Jewish doctor describes the day his office sign is taken down.
Ruth Doswald (1928–2022) grew up in Hamburg, the child of Jewish physician Dr Berthold Hannes (1882–1955) and his non-Jewish wife. Their mixed marriage protected him from deportation, and he continued working at the city’s Jewish Hospital from 1942 to 1955. Ruth’s sister emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938 and brought her over in 1939. That was where she began training as a nanny in 1944. After the war, she accompanied the family of a British soldier on his deployment to Hamburg. Her sister emigrated to the USA in the late 1940s. Ruth Doswald followed her in 1956 and started her own family there.