Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941

Marta  Janczewska

doi:10.32927/zzsim.819

No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013)

ISSN:

1895-247X

eISSN:

2657-3571

Publication date:
2013-12-02

Section: From research workshops

Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941

Marta Janczewska

mjanczewska2@gmail.com Bio

Marta Janczewska, employee of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her texts have been published in Midrasz, Teksty Drugie, Kultura i Społeczeństwo, and in collective publications. She has been preparing a volume of official documents of the Warsaw Jewish Council to be published within the framework of the series Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy [Emanuel Ringelblum’s underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto].

Jewish Historical Institute

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013), pages: 340-354

Publication date: 2013-02-20

https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.819

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Abstract

This paper presents two archival collections: death certificates of the Warsaw Jews (1939 and 1941), from the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, and a collection of books kept in the State Archives in Warsaw, containing names of patients treated in 1939 and 1940 in the hospital at Czyste, and in the Bersohn and Bauman hospital. These collections are a part of official medical records, which today can be read as a record of the fate of the Warsaw Jews. These non-narrative documents are not the just the only testament to the existence of people claimed by the Holocaust, but they also reveal various aspects of their
history to the modern reader, they become elements of a great historical fresco

Keywords

Warsaw ghetto, typhus, suicide, death certificates, hospitals, medicine

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Janczewska , M. (2013). Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (Holocaust Studies and Materials), 340-354. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.819

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No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013)

ISSN:

1895-247X

eISSN:

2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2013-12-02

Dział: From research workshops