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Description:: Dr. George Bergman and his family were 7th Day Adventists missionaries in Ethiopia. He founded a hospital in Dessie and was the superintendent of Zauditu Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital in Addis Ababa. When Italy was ready to invade Ethiopia in 1935, he sent his family back to Los Angeles, but he remained to take care of any casualties.
Date:: [circa February 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dr. George C. Bergman was among twelve Southern Californian, Seventh Day Adventist medical missionaries and their families advised to leave Ethiopia because of the threat of war.
Date:: July 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The American Legation is advising Southern California citizens and their families, medical missionaries of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to leave Ethiopia because of the threat of war. Dr. Nicola of Montebello left for Abyssinia in 1933 and lives in Addis Ababa with his wife and their three sons.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. George Bergman and Gertrude Bergman were 7th Day Adventists missionaries in Ethiopia. He founded a hospital in Dessie and was the superintendent of Zauditu Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital in Addis Ababa. When Italy was ready to invade Ethiopia in 1935, he sent his family back to Los Angeles, but he remained to take care of any casualties.
Date:: [circa February 7, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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