Background
Izak Zacharias Baruch was born on November 3, 1917, in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was the son of Isedore Baruch and Milka Zecharja Morpurgo.
Izak Zacharias Baruch
Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise
Order of Orange-Nassau
Dutch Resistance Cross
the University of Amsterdam
Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise
Order of Orange-Nassau
Dutch Resistance Cross
Academy Hospital Wilhelmina Gasthuis
Izak Zacharias Baruch was born on November 3, 1917, in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was the son of Isedore Baruch and Milka Zecharja Morpurgo.
Izak Baruch came from a Portuguese Jewish middle-class family and his father was a butcher and later a greengrocer. After graduating from Secondary school, he studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam till 1946. In 1958 he also obtained his doctorate in medicine.
Izak Zacharias Baruch started his career as an intern in Academy Hospital Wilhelmina Gasthuis from 1945 to 1946, and after his internship became a physician in general practice, 1946.
During the liberation of Paris at the end of the Second World War, Izak Zacharias Baruch worked at a first aid station. From 1953 to 1970 he was a municipal councilor of Amsterdam, with a short break in 1966. He held the position of Head of social department of Amsterdam Centre for Rheumatic Disease during 1948-1973.
In 1969 Izak Zacharias Baruch was nominated by the Labor Party for the lower house of the Dutch parliament but was not elected. In 1970 he joined the new Democratic-Socialists 1970 party and from 1971 to 1972 he was a member of the Lower House of the States-General for that party. There Izak Zacharias Baruch was mainly concerned with public health, social work, and environmental hygiene.
Izak Zacharias Baruch published a number of books, among them: Medicine in Ancient Israel, Men and Women, Say Yes to Love, The Schoolchild, Guillaume de Baillou and his importance to Rheumatology, Life, and Work of Vesalius, many articles.
Izak Zacharias Baruch also appeared on radio and TV programs on Jewish and general problems. He also was an editor in "Habinjan" -monthly of Spanish and Portuguese Communities.
From 1980 to 1990 Izak Baruch was chairman of the Anti-Rheumatism Association, from 1985 to 1994 chairman of the Society for Jewish Science in the Netherlands and for some time he was chairman of the Portuguese-Israeli denomination.
