Based on years of archival research, 'The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto' is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Ghetto. The functioning of the Ghetto hospitals, clinics and laboratories is explained in fascinating detail. Readers will learn about the ground-breaking research undertaken in the Ghetto as well as about the underground medical university that prepared hundreds of students for a career in medicine; a career that, in most cases, was to be cut brutally short within weeks of them completing their first year of studies.
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Maria Ciesielska, MD, PhD, is head of the UNESCO Unit at the Faculty of Medicine at the University in Haifa and a renowned specialist in the history of medicine.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD BY PROFESSOR MICHAEL BERENBAUM FOREWORD BY LUC ALBINSKI PREFACE CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN POLAND CHAPTER II: THE MEDICAL SYSTEM IN PRE-WAR POLAND Doctors in pre-war Poland The education of doctors in Poland Career prospects of doctors in Poland Jewish doctors in Poland
CHAPTER III: JEWISH DOCTORS AND ANTI-SEMITISM BETWEEN THE WARS Anti-Semitism in Academia Anti-Semitism in the Association of Doctors of the Polish State Activities of the Association of Doctors of the Polish Republic Jews in the Warsaw Medical Society
CHAPTER IV: HEALTHCARE DURING AND IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1939 SIEGE OF WARSAW The Czyste (Old Order) Hospital for Orthodox Jews The Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital The Ujazdowski Hospital The activities of the Jewish community organizations
CHAPTER V: HEALTHCARE PRIOR TO THE CREATION OF THE GHETTO The Polish medical system under occupation Creation of the Judenrat The functioning of the medical chambers The activities of TOZ The Czyste Jewish Hospital The Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital Pharmacies Emergency services The threat of labor camps Treatment of Jewish converts
CHAPTER VI: HEALTHCARE AFTER THE SEALING OF THE WARSAW GHETTO The doctors in the Ghetto Activities of the Judenrat's Health Department The fight against epidemics TOZ activities after the sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto Emergency services The Czyste Jewish Hospital The Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital The hospital at 109 Leszno Street Pharmacies The Chemical and Bacteriological Institute Medical care for the Jewish Police The prisons Christian Convert Doctors Mental health in the Ghetto The threat of labor camps
CHAPTER VII: THE GREAT DEPORTATION (GROSSAKTION) Events leading to the Great Deportation The murder of Dr. Franciszek Raszeja Hostage taking The Great Deportation Czyste Jewish Hospital The General Hospital on Stawki Street Doctors during the Great Deportation Pharmacists during the Great Deportation Doctors in the Jewish Police during the Deportation
CHAPTER VIII: HEALTHCARE AFTER THE GREAT DEPORTATION The Hospital on 6-8 Gesia Street Doctors after the Great Deportation Nurses after the Great Deportation Pharmacists after the Great Deportation Emergency Services after the Deportation The Fate of the Gesia Street Hospital
CHAPTER IX: THE GHETTO UPRISING AND ITS AFTERMATH The last hospital in the Ghetto The fate of Jewish doctors after the Deportation
CHAPTER X: RESISTANCE BY THE MEDICAL FRATERNITY The underground medical school The Blum-Bielicka School of Nursing Studies in Hunger Disease Studies in Typhus
CHAPTER XI: CONCLUSION ANNEXURE I: LIST OF JEWISH DOCTORS WHO WERE ARRESTED AND HELD HOSTAGE IN 1940 FOLLOWING ANDRZEJ KOTT'S ESCAPE FROM THE GESTAPO ANNEXURE II: LIST OF NON-ARYAN DOCTORS IN WARSAW FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL INSTITUTE ANNEXURE III: LIST OF JEWISH DOCTORS WORKING AND LIVING IN WARSAW IN 1940-1942 ANNEXURE IV: THE DOCTORS MOVED FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO TO THE LÓDZ GHETTO IN 1941/42 ANNEXURE V: SCHEDULE OF PHARMACIES OVERSEEN BY THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT OF THE JUDENRAT ANNEXURE VI: A LIST OF PHARMACIES OVERSEEN BY THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT OF THE JUDENRAT IN THE GHETTO IN SEPTEMBER 1942. ANNEXURE VII: DOCTORS SAVING JEWS IN WARSAW IN 1939-1945 ANNEXURE VIII: PHOTOGRAPHS OF SELECTED DOCTORS AND NURSES INDEX