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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.

Contents:

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 LODZ
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