In 1933, Nazi leadership declared that no one of Jewish background could hold a position in German governmental facilities.
Four months later, Schatzki moved to America with his wife Greta and young son Stefan.
He trained in radiology in Berlin with Hans Heinrich Berg (1889-1968) who was the leading diagnostic radiologist in Germany at that time.
He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a radiologist physician in Boston at MGH until 1943.
[2] He served as president of the New England Roentgen Ray Society, of which he became an honorary member in 1967.