Jakob Neuberger came to the Netherlands from Poland via Germany in 1915. He studied medicine in Leiden, where he sat for his medical finals on 3 July 1925. He took his PhD degree in Leiden in May 1927 for his thesis on a contribution to the knowledge about the icterus neonatorum. He spent a while as a registrar in Vienna and then left for Semarang in the Dutch East Indies. Upon returning to the Ne…