Ciesielska / Nates / Friedman The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64469-728-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 428 Seiten

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 Warsaw Ghetto.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ciesielska, Maria

Nates, Tali

Friedman, Jeanette

Albinski, Luc

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berenbaum, Michael

Krzychylkiewicz, Agata

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ciesielska Maria:
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.Nates Tali:
Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Nates has published many articles and contributed chapters to several books, among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021). She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic) and the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021). She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered.Friedman Jeanette:
Jeanette Friedman, a member of The Society of Professional Journalists, established her own company, The Wordsmithy, Llc. in 1979. That same year, she also founded Second Generation North Jersey for sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. At The Wordsmithy, Ms. Friedman ghostwrites, edits and publishes books, most of them Holocaust memoirs, nursing books from handwritten manuscripts to the printed page. Her own book, Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust, written with David Gold, received critical acclaim from Holocaust educators. She also trains students to interview survivors for Names Not Numbers, a middle school Holocaust Education program. Friedman served on the NJ Governor’s Task Force for Holocaust Education under Gov. Tom Kean and is one of the founders of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. She was a Second Generation advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and founder of an online group that exchanges information about current events, the Holocaust, character development in children and multicultural and ethnic understanding. From 1990-2004, she served as executive editor of the magazine Lifestyles. In addition to maintaining The Wordsmithy, Friedman continues her volunteer work in human rights/Holocaust education and is developing a Human Rights/Holocaust resource center for the Pocono Mountain region of Northeast Pennsylvania.Albinski Luc:
Luc Albinski is the co-founder of Vantage Capital’s mezzanine business which offers long-term, growth capital to mid-size businesses across Africa. Brought up in a Polish-Catholic home, Luc learnt about his Jewish origins in his early twenties. His interest in Holocaust and genocide history springs from his personal story as a son of a Holocaust survivor as well as from his on-the-ground involvement with a non-profit during the Bosnian conflict.Dr. Maria Ciesielska is a specialist in Family Medicine and a university lecturer with a doctorate in medical history. A keen personal interest in learning more about the fate of her Jewish peers in Warsaw during the Holocaust motivated Maria to publish an award-winning book on this topic in 2017 after years of research.For thirty years, Professor Emerita, Agata Krzychylkiewicz, lectured in Russian and European literature at the University of South Africa. A native of Poland, in 1970 she obtained an MA in Russian Philology at Wroclaw University, before emigrating to South Africa with her husband and sons in 1981. In 1999, she was awarded the degree DLitt et Phil for her thesis entitled “The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasienski” (revised and published under the same title by Peter Lang [Bern], in 2006). During her academic career, Agata mainly focused on contemporary literature. She also was interested in translation theory, attempting to translate mainly short stories, several of which being published in Jewish Affairs and elsewhere. She also served as editor of the bilingual scholarly journal, Slavic Almanac.
Luc Albinski is based in Johannesburg and is the co-founder of Vantage Capital’s mezzanine finance business which offers long-term, growth capital to mid-size businesses across Africa. He has recently launched an education investment platform which, in the first instance, is targeting the countries of Central & Eastern Europe. Luc has a long-standing interest in development finance. After completing his MBA at INSEAD in France, he spent time working on projects in countries such as Brazil, Gabon, Romania and Bosnia with the World Bank (IFC). Luc is passionate about entrepreneurship. Before Vantage, he established an employee-benefits business in Poland which was ultimately successfully listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Luc learnt about his Jewish origins in his early twenties. His interest in holocaust and genocide work springs from his personal history as well as from his on-the-ground involvement with a non-profit during the Bosnian conflict.

Jeanette Friedman, a member of The Society of Professional Journalists, established her own company, The Wordsmithy, Llc. in 1979. That same year, she also founded Second Generation North Jersey for sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. At The Wordsmithy, Ms. Friedman ghostwrites, edits and publishes books, most of them Holocaust memoirs, nursing books from handwritten manuscripts to the printed page. Her own book, Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust, written with David Gold, received critical acclaim from Holocaust educators. She also trains students to interview survivors for Names Not Numbers, a middle school Holocaust Education program. Friedman served on the NJ Governor’s Task Force for Holocaust Education under Gov. Tom Kean and is one of the founders of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. She was a Second Generation advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and founder of an online group that exchanges information about current events, the Holocaust, character development in children and multicultural and ethnic understanding. From 1990-2004, she served as executive editor of the magazine Lifestyles. In addition to maintaining The Wordsmithy, Friedman continues her volunteer work in human rights/Holocaust education and is developing a Human Rights/Holocaust resource center for the Pocono Mountain region of Northeast Pennsylvania.Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Nates has published many articles and contributed chapters to several books, among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021). She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic) and the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021). She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered.