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

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,...

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Main Author: Marta Janczewska
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Language:deu
Published: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow 2013-02-01
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Online Access:https://zagladazydow.pl/index.php/zz/article/view/819
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description 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
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spellingShingle Marta Janczewska
Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
Zagłada Żydów
Warsaw ghetto
typhus
suicide
death certificates
hospitals
medicine
title Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
title_full Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
title_fullStr Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
title_full_unstemmed Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
title_short Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
title_sort official medical documents as a source for research of the fate of warsaw jews 1939 1941
topic Warsaw ghetto
typhus
suicide
death certificates
hospitals
medicine
url https://zagladazydow.pl/index.php/zz/article/view/819
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