Dr. Ida Sakin, Exiled Plastic Surgeon, Seeks a Refuge Here

Jewish leaders in this city have issued an appeal to the United States Senators David I. Walsh and Marcus A. Coolidge to intercede in behalf of Dr. Genie Ida Sakin, German refugee, who wishes to remain permanently in this country.

Dr. Sakin, who is twenty-eight years old, is visiting relatives in Malden. She is of Jewish ancestry. She was forced to leave a good practice in plastic surgery in Berlin which has been growing rapidly since she graduated an honor student from the University of Berlin.

Dr. Sakin told newspapermen that she was forced to escape from her native land on account of the “persistent attentions” of a Nazi official. She refused to divulge his name.

The official, according to her story, had demanded that the surgeon go on excursions in his company. His attentions finally assumed a dangerous aspect, she said, and she decided to leave the country for her personal safety.

Friends of Dr. Sakin have succeeded in having her passport extended for a year. She is loathe to tell her story, or to say anything about the treatment of her friends in Germany.

She Said: “I put up with conditions for a while because I had a practice and I was ambitious to succeed, but when the Nazi official began his pursuit of me, with all its implications, I finally had to leave.

“Especially after I received a very threatening letter in which I was informed that he was in power and unless I complied with his wishes something terrible would happen to me. Knowing the experience of many others, I felt that I had to leave.”

Born in Lithuania, Dr. Sakin said that her father was a prosperous merchant. She studied medicine in Berlin, and served as an interne in several German hospitals. She specialized in plastic surgery.