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TANULMÁNYOK — ARTICLES - FORRAI, Judit: History of a Special Healing Method for Motor-disordered Children: Conductive Education - A mozgásszervi betegségben szenvedő gyermekek egyik sajátos gyógymódja, a konduktív nevelés története
correlations in medicine. He writes about this in the following way: "My scientific writings deal with poliomyelitis, neurology, cardio-vascular and respiratory diseases, theoretical and practical questions relating to tuberculosis and rheumatism and their therapeutic difficulties. One of my treatises on symptomatic therapy emphasised, as early as 1926, the importance of Pavlov's conditioned reflex in the treatment of internal illnesses. " The war years (1938-1945) After the Anschluss 31 we find Pető in Budapest. Andor Németh wrote: "A couple of weeks after Hitler took over Austria, I wrote a letter to Pető. Instead of answering he showed up himself. After that he spent every afternoon at our house, and at night we went out together. Sometimes in the afternoon he went down to the Seemann Café. " Because of the progression of Nazism and the Jewish laws 32 , Pető escaped to Paris. He occupied himself with nebulous business affairs and enjoyed the nightlife of Paris. He often got together with the Hungarians living there, for example with the writer Béla Zsolt* 3 . Pető returned from Paris in 1939. We only know of a few episodes from the period of war. 34 Pető spent Hungary's almost yearlong period of German occupation in the children's home of the International Red Cross, in Orsó street, Budapest. This is where he found shelter with the help of his psychiatric friend Miklós Kun 35 , who worked as a member of the Red Cross medical unit. Since Pető could not stand the wearing of the mandatory yellow star which separated Jewish people from others, he never left the house. Born 36 leader of the International Committee of the Red Cross, hand in hand with Joint 37 wished to get papers, food and medicine to those in hiding or living in the ghettos, mostly however without success. On the advice of the Zionist Movement, Born organised a separate group called Section A where 250 people worked under the direction of Ottó Komoly?* The task of this group was to place abandoned children into almost 30 children's homes, to run and supply these institutions with food and to organise medical units for them all. The other group was Section B which belonged to the Good Shepherd Committee. Ac31 The Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, 1938. March 32 First Anti-Semitic Law: 1938, the set percentage of Jewish people in the media, in engineering and in the chamber of lawyers was not to exceed 20%. Second Anti-Semitic Law: 1939, the proportion of Jewish people partaking in economical and social life was not to exceed 6%. Third Anti-Semitic Law: 1941, the right to wed in accordance with the Anti-Semitic Laws of Nürnberg. 33 Béla Zsolt writer, publicist (1895-1949) 34 Interview with Dr. Miklós Kun., In: Forrai J.: Memoirs of the beginnigs of conductive pedagogy and András Pető Budapest-Birmingham, Új Aranyhíd - Foundation of Conductive Education, 1999. 79-85. 35 In the Saturday-saloon of Miklós Kun the intellectuals of Budapest met: writers, poets and artists: Miklós Radnóti, György Bálint, Milán Füst and the young György Aczél, etc. In the interview with Miklós Kun from 198889. Oral Archives of the 1956 Institute. No 188., 81. 36 Friedrich Born (1903-1963) delegated member of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Hungary in 1944-45. 37 JOINT Jewish aid organisation, which was founded in the USA during World War I. for aiding the victims of the war. It became an international organisation during World War II. It operated actively in Hungary until its closure in 1953. Since the change of regime in 1989, it once again operates an office in Budapest. ji! Vaada, Zionist aid and saving committee created in 1943. Partakers in its founding were: Joel Brand, Kasztner, Springmann, Ernő Szilágyi and Ottó Komoly. In Braham, Randolph: A magyar holocaust. Budapest, Gondolat, 1988. 88-93.
