Even though you are very impressed with the dedication of the military chaplains, you cannot abandon your early dreams of becoming a doctor. Thus you decide to complete your medical education. But where? You cannot return to Berlin; the memories are just too painful for you to live in the capital of the Third Reich. On the other hand, you are still not welcome in universities in Poland.
While you are trying to make a decision, stories reach you about the kindness of the Scandinavian people during the war, about how they tried to save Jews, even at great risk to themselves. You decide that you would like to live among people like that, and you enroll at the University of Oslo in Norway.
What you had heard turns out to be true, you feel comfortable among these people, and you complete your studies with high honors. You then continue your training at the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna, becoming a psychiatrist. This hospital is exclusively for Jews fleeing Eastern Europe, people whose lives you understand because you experienced many of the same terrors that still haunt them. you are able to help many of them rid themselves of guilt and anger, fear and trembling.
When your training in Vienna is finished, you return to Oslo and become a doctor at the university's psychiatric clinic. Your reputation for treating Holocaust survivors spreads across Europe, and patients come to you from many countries. Helping your fellow Jews escape their mental suffering gives you tremendous pleasure; it is as though all of your own anguish prepared you for the purpose of caring for your own people. Your work is gratifying; it is a mitzvah.
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