Daughter of Nazis Honored for Saving Lives in Israel

[Solomon2]

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Daughter of Nazis Honored for Saving Lives in Israel

Tina Berkowitz, whose parents were Nazis in World War II Germany, was recently honored for her lifesaving efforts in Israel.

By: United Hatzalah and United with Israel Staff, April 25th, 2018

On the eve of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day, during the commemoration ceremony held by the Regional Council of Hof HaCarmel in northen Israel, a volunteer first responder named Tina Berkovitz was awarded a citation for her continued dedication and devotion for saving the lives of her fellow Israelis.

But Tina isn’t a regular Sabra, Israeli-born Jew. The 67-year-old grandmother grew up in post World War II Germany and is the daughter of Nazis. For her, receiving the award on the eve of Yom HaShoah was an exceptionally emotional experience.

Berkovitz was born in the city of Bochum near Dusseldorf. In 1973 she began a 45-year-long career of lifesaving and working in the medical profession when she volunteered as part of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace organization, whose aim is to confront the legacy of Nazism.

Berkovitz came to Israel as part of one of the organization’s projects and spent three months learning Hebrew before she began volunteering as an EMR and nurse’s assistant with the Red Cross.

She began her volunteering just as the Yom Kippur War broke out. “I volunteered in Shmuel Harofe Hospital that had been converted during the war to house and treat Arab POW’s,” Berkovitz recalled. “I was working as a nurse as part of the Red Cross and we had an agreement with the Nurses Union in Tel Aviv which engaged us to serve in the local hospitals. I’ve always had a passion for helping others and for the field of health and I felt this was the perfect way to help others.”

Following the war, Berkovitz was transferred from Shmuel Harofeh to Assuta in Tel Aviv. There she met former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidya Frankel, who heard her story.

“Rabbi Frankel invited me to learn about Judaism, not to convert per se, but just to learn and understand it better. In the end, I converted and we learned together for a time before he found me a tutor to study with. It was just him and me in the lessons and it is because of him and his approach that I converted,” she recounted.

Berkovitz has since built a family of her own and has settled down in the Artist’s Colony of Ein Hod. She has three children and two grandchildren, most of whom live in Tel Aviv.

Berkovitz currently volunteers as a First Responder and EMT with United Hatzalah, Israel’s national community-based volunteer EMS organization.

Berkovitz is also a doula and a naturopath, and has even started an emergency medical clinic for Israeli tourists and travelers in the Goa province of India.

Serving is a Great Honor
“I’ve always felt that it is a great honor to be able to work and volunteer around the clock in a position that saves lives all the time. That is one of the things that pushes me to continually volunteer and serve my community. It is thanks to organizations such as United Hatzalah that allow and inspire me to keep helping others no matter what,” she said.

Berkovitz has also worked at the Kfar Izun psychological and drug rehab center. “I began helping the patients there with natural medicine and now it is one of the few places in the world where natural medicine and traditional medicine are used hand in hand to treat patients who are suffering psychological conditions due to drug use.”

Berkovitz praised United Hatzalah as a serving as a “home” for her.

“I come from Germany, the land that the Nazis once called home. My parents were Nazis. Here, in Israel, I get an award of recognition on the eve of Yom HaShoah, from the regional council where I live, for saving the lives of Israelis. I don’t think of this award and say to myself that now I can now sit back and relax, rather it pushes me forward to do more and to help more people and that is what I want to do,” she said. “While my parents were not happy with my choice to come to Israel and with my conversion, the one thing that they couldn’t argue about was the importance of saving lives,” she concluded.

 

[war&peace]

Nazis ha to acha log likan unhon ne kam pora ni kiya.

 

[Daghalodi]

While Zionists will still cry about gas chambers and zyklon B and beg for money!

Yes Holocaust is a million dollar bussiness now

 

[gangsta_rap]

My parents were Nazis

Unless they were members of the NSDAP or the SS they weren't really Nazis lol...just germans.

 

[Solomon2]

Unless they were members of the NSDAP or the SS they weren't really Nazis lol...just germans.

Two of the millions of Germans who went along for the ride at the very least. More:

...Sometimes their names may lead to speculation about their lineage, but there are no visible signs of their forebears who brought shame on Germany.

Thus there was no reason to think that Tina Berkovits – a volunteer with United Hatzalah, who on Holocaust Remembrance Day was given a citation in recognition of her dedication and devotion at a ceremony held by the Carmel Coast Regional Council – was not born Jewish, let alone was the product of a Nazi family.

It was a particularly emotional experience for the 67-year-old grandmother who grew up in post-World War II Germany to receive an award on this particular occasion. Berkovits was born in the city of Bochum near Dusseldorf. In 1973, she began a 45-year-long career of saving lives and working in the medical profession when she volunteered as part of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace organization whose aim is to confront the legacy of Nazism.

She came to Israel within the framework of one of the organization’s projects and spent three months learning Hebrew before she began volunteering as an EMT and nurse’s assistant with the Red Cross.

She began her volunteering work just as the Yom Kippur War broke out. “I volunteered in Shmuel Harofeh Hospital that had been converted during the war to house and treat Arab POWs. I was working as a nurse as part of the Red Cross and we had an agreement with the Nurses Union in Tel Aviv which engaged me to serve in local hospitals. I’ve always had a passion for helping others and for the field of health and I felt this was the perfect way to help others.”

After the war, Berkovits was transferred from Shmuel Harofeh to Assuta in Tel Aviv. There she met the then-chief rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Rabbi Yitzhak Yedidya Frankel, who heard her story. “Rabbi Frankel invited me to learn about Judaism, not to convert per se, but just to learn and understand it better. In the end, I converted and we learned together for a time before he found me a tutor to study with. It was just him and me in the lessons and it is because of him and his approach that I converted.

He told me: ‘It doesn’t matter how you look or what you wear, but if you are a good person and you honor your parents then you should join us.’ He didn’t come from a place of forcing me to do anything but rather from a place of love and from the value of human life, and that is something that I really connected with.”

Since then, Berkovits built a family of her own and settled down in the Artist’s Colony of Ein Hod. She has three children and two grandchildren, most of whom live in Tel Aviv. Berkovits currently volunteers as a First Responder and EMT with United Hatzalah, Israel’s national community- based volunteer EMS organization. Her passion as now turned into a quasi-profession.

She is on call 24/7.

She is also a doula, a naturopath, and even started an emergency medical clinic for Israeli tourists and travelers in the Goa province of India.

 

[jewishm]

no one cares.
ashknzis obsession with what happend in europe is annoying.
+ and also espcially the american ashknzis always crying about anti semetic while their semetic blood is questionable.

 

[gangsta_rap]

and also espcially the american ashknzis always crying about anti semetic while their semetic blood is questionable.

you are WOKE