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Dr. BERTA BERGMAN (Bergmann), born on May 10, 1894, in the vicinity of Sarajevo, as the eldest daughter of railway official JOZEF or JOSIP and ERNESTINA. Coming from an Ashkenazi Jewish background in Vienna. Her parents wanted to provide their daughters with the highest education, so Berta and her sister Marija enrolled in the second and third grade, respectively, of the eight-year Gymnasium in Mostar in 1905. They became the first female students of this school and the first women to complete high school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both sisters continued their education in Vienna, where Berta graduated in 1918 and became a medical doctor. She returned to Bosnia and worked as a pediatrician in several places, including Banja Luka. Prior to the war, she was appointed as the head of the School Polyclinic in Mostar (located at the site of the “Ru\u017ea” hotel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the rise of the Usta\u0161e regime, Berta assisted the resistance movement in Mostar. She procured medical supplies, taught courses for nurses, and treated wounded individuals. At the same time, she provided shelter in her own home for Jewish refugees from Sarajevo and other cities fleeing towards the Italian-occupied zone. She was arrested twice by the Usta\u0161e, the last time being on January 15, 1945, towards the end of the war. The Usta\u0161e took her to the Jasenovac concentration camp where she was soon executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berta’s sister Marija, married Kon, who became the first woman with a doctorate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was dismissed from her job and sent to the Rab concentration camp at the beginning of the war. After the capitulation of Italy, she reached the liberated territory. Her children were involved in the partisan movement – her son Mihael (Mihajlo) Kon<\/a> died as a partisan. Her daughter Mirjana was captured on Igman and taken to the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp. Marija and Mirjana survived the war. Their brother Alfred Fredi Bergman<\/a>, known by the nicknames Mostarac and Lenc, was executed by the Usta\u0161e in 1941 on Dotr\u0161\u010dina in Zagreb. Another sister, Lujza Kr\u010dmar-Bergman, was in exile in Dubrovnik and joined the partisans in 1944. Her daughter Radojka Kr\u010dmar<\/a> died in the Slovenian partisans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, there are memorial plaques for three members of this family: Dr. Berta Bergman, Mihajlo Kon, and Radojka Kr\u010dmar. Berta Bergman’s name, alongside Dr. Safet Muji\u0107, is on the memorial plaque for doctors, pharmacists, and medical and pharmaceutical students on the building of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Another memorial plaque was unveiled for Berta and Marija in 2023 at the Gymnasium in Mostar, where they were once students. In 1999, a Holocaust monument was erected at the Jewish cemetery in Mostar, which also includes Berta’s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. BERTA BERGMAN (Bergmann), born on May 10, 1894, in the vicinity of Sarajevo, as the eldest daughter of railway official JOZEF or JOSIP and ERNESTINA. Coming from an Ashkenazi Jewish background in Vienna. Her parents wanted to provide their daughters with the highest education, so Berta and her sister Marija enrolled in the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9886,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[305,328,309,307,329],"tags":[359,333,291,330,249,311,358,341],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11883","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1945-en","category-poginuli-u-hr-en","category-jasenovac-en","category-zene-en","tag-bergman-kon-en","tag-jevreji-en","tag-foto","tag-foto-en","tag-logor-jasenovac","tag-logor-jasenovac-en","tag-medicinari-en","tag-gimnazija-u-mostaru-en","prezime-b-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":"

https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/download\/pdf\/286765836.pdf<\/a>;\u00a0Romano, dr Ja\u0161a: Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941 \u2014 1945. \u017ertve genocida i u\u010desnici NOR<\/a>, Srbo\u0161tampa, Beograd; Romano, dr Ja\u0161a (1972) Jevrejski istorijski muzej, Zbornik 2<\/a>, Beograd; Romano, dr Ja\u0161a, Jevreji u logoru na Rabu i njihovo uklju\u010divanje u narodnooslobodila\u010dki rat<\/a>;\u00a0https:\/\/www.mostar.ba\/postavljena-spomen-ploca-sestrama-bergmann-u-gimnaziji-mostar\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SarajevoZaSvuRajuICijeliSvijet\/photos\/sestre-berta-i-marija-bergman\/1117841284960699\/<\/a>; http:\/\/www.prometej.ba\/clanak\/drustvo-i-znanost\/sestre-berta-i-marija-bergman-pionirke-zenskog-obrazovanja-u-bih-bez-ulice-bez-spomena-2708<\/a> ; https:\/\/mostarski.info\/sestre-berta-i-marija-bergman\/<\/a>; https:\/\/pogled.ba\/novosti\/mostar\/postavljena-spomen-ploca-sestrama-bergmann-u-gimnaziji-mostar\/268354<\/a>; https:\/\/www.abc-doctors.com\/zene-ljekari-u-bih<\/a>; https:\/\/autonomija.info\/boro-kontic-sestre-bergmann-prepustene-zubu-vremena\/?fbclid=IwAR1LelI42FygBAG8friuOry5DA-D5_w7FqSFWB82cQ_Y-0hVID0E8G2TaGQ<\/a> ; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945; \u00a0Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, Mahmud (1981): \u201cMostarke\u201d<\/a>: fragmenti o revolucionarnoj djelatnosti i patriotskoj opredjeljenosti \u017eena Mostara, o njihovoj borbi za slobodu i socijalizam, Op\u0161tinski odbor SUBNOR-a Mostar; Muli\u0107, Sulejman (2012): Zdravstvene prilike u Hercegovini tokom Drugog svjetskog rata sa posebnim osvrtom na Konji\u010dko podru\u010dje, BOSNA i Hercegovina 1941: novi pogledi : zbornik radova \/ [glavni i odgovorni urednik Husnija Kamberovi\u0107]. - Sarajevo : Institut za istoriju; https:\/\/www.portalnovosti.com\/mostarke-otpor-u-zicama<\/a>; https:\/\/unigerc.unsa.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/100-zena-100-ulica-po-zenama-WEB22_compressed.pdf<\/a>; https:\/\/sr.wikipedia.org\/sr-el\/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%85_%D1%83_%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%A0<\/a> ; http:\/\/www.vma.mod.gov.rs\/vma-u-proslosti<\/a>; http:\/\/www.most.ba\/108\/083.aspx<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.glassrpske.com\/cir\/plus\/istorija\/ZAPISI-IZ-ARHIVA-Banjalucki-ljekari-u-Kraljevini-Jugoslaviji-1929-1941-Ljekar-jedan-od-osnivaca-Rotari-kluba\/238277https:\/\/autonomija.info\/boro-kontic-sestre-bergmann-prepustene-zubu-vremena\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Photo of the memorial plaque:<\/em> S. Demirovi\u0107, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berta_Bergman<\/a>; https:\/\/federalna.ba\/dulic-iduce-godine-doci-cemo-pjeske-na-partizansko-spomen-groblje-vulke<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=690361703098260&set=pcb.690361749764922&locale=es_ES<\/a> \u00a0; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SarajevoZaSvuRajuICijeliSvijet\/photos\/sestre-berta-i-marija-bergman\/1117841284960699\/<\/a><\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1894. Bla\u017euj \u2013 1945. 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