The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto / / Maria Ciesielska; ed. by Tali Nates, Luc Albinski, Jeanette Friedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Ciesielska, Maria,
• MitwirkendeR: Albinski, Luc,; Berenbaum, Michael,; Krzychylkiewicz, Agata,
• HerausgeberIn: Albinski, Luc,; Friedman, Jeanette,; Nates, Tali,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)

This volume devoted to the history of doctors who performed their work in the Warsaw ghetto. Despite difficult conditions, they managed to create a professional healthcare system and establish hospitals and clinics, as well as organizing the underground teaching of medicine and carrying out scientific research. This in-depth study is based on personal narratives and diaries and shows the emotional and ethical struggle that the doctors had to face in their work in the ghetto

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Jewish Community in Poland -- Chapter 2: The Medical System in Prewar Poland -- Chapter 3: Jewish Doctors and Antisemitism between the Wars -- Chapter 4: Healthcare during and in the Aftermath of the 1939 Siege of Warsaw -- Chapter 5: Healthcare Prior to the Creation of the Ghetto -- Chapter 6: Healthcare after the Sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto -- Chapter 7: The Great Deportation (Grossaktion) -- Chapter 8: Healthcare after the Great Deportation -- Chapter 9: The Ghetto Uprising and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 10: Resistance by the Medical Fraternity -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of Jewish Doctors Who Were Arrested and Held Hostage in 1940 Following Andrzej Kott’s Escape from the Gestapo -- Appendix 2: List of Non-Aryan Doctors in Warsaw from the Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute -- Appendix 3: List of Jewish Doctors Working and Living in Warsaw in 1940–1942 -- Appendix 4: List of Jewish Doctors Moved from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Łódź Ghetto in 1941/1942 -- Appendix 5: Schedule of Pharmacies Overseen by the Pharmacy Department of the Judenrat -- Appendix 6: A List of Pharmacies Overseen by the Pharmacy Department of the Judenrat in the Ghetto in September 1942 -- Appendix 7: List of Doctors who Saved Jews in Warsaw in 1939–1945 -- Appendix 8: Photographs of Selected Doctors and Nurses -- Appendix 9: List of Teachers of Medicine in the Ghetto -- Index