Subject: re: funny story
Oren,
Thank you for sharing that story about your uncles. Amidst the many sorrows are often found such stories as the one you shared. We can all use a dose of humor now and then.
Leah
----------------------------------------------------------------------Subject:RE: [Cz-L] Army serviceFrom: "Saraf, Oren" <Oren.Saraf_at_servotronix.com>Date:Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:34:09 +0300X-Message-Number: 2I think I have posted itbefore, but this funny story of Uncle Josef military medical career, as writtenby cousin Arthur Fischler in his memories (Kiczy, Dr. Scharfstein, was mygrandfather nickname):"Uncle Josef (my Aunt Betty�s husband) and UncleKiczy, both, had studied medicine in Vienna.When the first World War brokeout, Josef who had already completed his second year, was drafted by the army as�sanitation officer� (Austrian title) and Kiczy, who had been studying medicineonly for a year and a half, became a �assistant sanitation officer�, both in theAustrian army.When the war was over, Uncle Kiczy continued studying medicineand got his degree, whereas Uncle Josef, stopped studying and became abusinessman.The Austrian-Hungarian Empire had ended and both were nowRumanian citizens. Can you imagine Uncle Josef�s surprise when one day the armycalled on Dr. Josef Hellwing, officer of the Rumanian Army Reserves, to appearat such and such regiment? And in uniform! And thus began his succession ofsorrows. He had to go to the regiment every so often and of course, he had tobuy a uniform. He had expended much money and wasted a lot of time trying toexplain that he actually was not a physician and that he knew nothing ofmedicine (an more or less to leave him alone), but the typical answer wasalways: �your army card says you are a physician, and you will remain beingone.�But then came 1940 and although Rumania had not entered the war yet,large troops were being concentrated. And "Dr." Josef Hellwing was drafted andappointed battalion physician. You can imagine the headaches and responsibilityof this poor quasi-physician in charge of 5,000 soldiers!!! All he couldprescribe them was aspirin and laxatives. But once, he got a 10 day vacation andhe went home (to Czernowitz). In this time span, the Russians invaded and put anend to his �medical-military career� in the Rumanian army.He stayed home andas I told you, they took his factory from him. But ... the Russian army realizedthey had a military physician at hand and summoned him. He explained that he wasnot a physician; that he knew nothing about medicine, but they told him the samething he had been told previously: � This states you are a physician.� And hewas put to work once again, but this time, he was demoted to �Assistantphysician�. When the war came to an end, so did his medical career with theRussian army.Without having graduated as a physician, Josef had been aphysician in THREE armies! ... And NO ONE had taken my Uncle Kiczy into account,who was actually a physician."Oren Saraf-
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