# Dr. Samuel van Biema

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In Hamburg, Dr. Samuel van Biema is commemorated by a Stolperstein, a small brass plaque set into the pavement. The memorial connects one pavement stone with the history of Jewish life during the Holocaust.

Born in Leer, Ostfriesland, in 1865, he studied medicine in Erlangen, Berlin and Strasbourg. He completed a doctorate on polio in May 1890. Hamburg became the centre of his medical work after he joined the Israelite Hospital and treated patients during the 1892 cholera epidemic. By 1895, he ran a private practice and served as district and police doctor in Rotherbaum and Harvestehude.

He married Adeline Brasch in 1897, and their daughter Rose Charlotte grew up in Harvestehude. Nazi persecution revoked his medical licence in 1938 and ended his work as a Jewish physician. Van Biema died by suicide on 29 September 1938, amid that persecution. The brass surface remains a quiet reminder of his medical career, his family and the violence that destroyed their security.

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