Jakob Altaras

Jacob Altaras ( born October 12, 1918 in Split; † 6 December 2001) was a Yugoslav radiologist.

Life

Altaras was the youngest of six brothers. After graduation he studied medicine in Bari, where he graduated in 1944 his state. After the Second World War he repeated in 1946, the medical state examination in Zagreb. Altaras worked as a research assistant in radiology and the Military Hospital in Zagreb. There, he became the director of the Center for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. 1958 Habilitation Altaras and was a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. In 1958 he married the architect Thea Fuhrmann. From this marriage the actress and director Adriana Altaras emerged. From 1960, he operated a private practice in addition. 1964 Altaras left with his family Yugoslavia and went to Zurich. He worked there until 1966 at the X-ray Diagnostic Central Institute of the University of Zurich. In 1966 he moved to the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen.

Commitment

In 1978, Altaras a Jewish community in casting, again received its own synagogue by his efforts in 1995. For his social commitment, he was honored by President Roman Herzog the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Resistance against the Nazis

Altaras was active in the Yugoslav resistance against the Nazis. He managed to save from the burning synagogue in Split, the Torah and other cultic objects in front of the fire. Altaras was secretly smuggled into a concentration camp to explore how occupants can escape. In 1943, he smuggled out of the occupied by the German Reich Croatia 40 children across the Adriatic to Italy, from where they came on to Palestine. In the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem remember trees on this fact.

Works

• Radiologic Atlas colon and rectum, Munich, 1989, Urban and Fischer, ISBN 978-3-541-10001-9