{"product_id":"the-doctors-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-9781644697269","title":"The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eThe Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto\u003c\/i\u003e] sheds light on the influence of doctors, nurses and other health workers on daily coping while attempting to survive and save lives. The book broadens the perspective regarding participants in the Uprising. Ciesielska describes dozens of doctors and nurses who, rather than fleeing for their lives following \u003ci\u003eAktions\u003c\/i\u003e in the ghetto, stayed behind to treat their patients in the bunkers, where nearly all of them died; a type of ‘white-coat rebellion’ alongside the armed struggle. These medical services also reflect the doctors’ and nurses’ ethical decisions made under extreme tragic circumstances during the ghetto’s final stages. … This book is a must read for researchers of the Holocaust, the history of medicine, in general, and particularly Jewish medicine. Its appendixes pose an interesting research challenge for further study.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Miriam Offer, \u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It goes without saying that the Nazis had no interest whatsoever in the well-being and health of the captive Jewish inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto. But because they feared that diseases and epidemics might spread beyond it and endanger German personnel and afflict the general Polish population, they provided a bare modicum of assistance to Jewish hospitals, health services, doctors, nurses and pharmacists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnumerable books have been written about the Holocaust in Poland, but precious few have dealt with this important but overlooked issue. Maria Ciesielska’s \u003ci\u003eThe Doctors of the Warsaw\u003c\/i\u003e Ghetto… examines it in voluminous detail from the moment the ghetto was established in November 1940 until it was destroyed during the uprising in April 1943.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Sheldon Kirshner, \u003ci\u003eThe Times of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e (blog)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Dr. Maria Ciesielska’s account of the Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto adds an important dimension to the existing material, but this is not just another historical account. Dr Ciesielska’s meticulous, detailed, and comprehensive use of many personal memoirs and testimonies to document their lives, and their deaths, provides a special lens through we which we can learn and understand more about the personal stories of those doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who worked and lived under those dire and extreme circumstances in the Ghetto. Through her unique way of storytelling, Dr. Ciesielska provides us with a humanistic glimpse into the complexities of the daily lives of these Jewish victims, and the ethical and moral complexities that they faced as healthcare professionals. This is a work of devotion to the memory of these individuals.”— Dr. Tessa Chelouche, M.D.\u003cbr\u003e“This remarkable book depicts the heroic efforts which the Warsaw Ghetto doctors deployed to protect the inhabitants from epidemics and treat them if they were sick. Weakened by starvation, overcrowding, catastrophic hygienic conditions and diseases, most Ghetto residents did not survive. Many also perished in death camps. The Ghetto medical community was also almost completely wiped out. The author studied accounts by surviving physicians and provides a chronological history of the Ghetto medical organization, interspersed with portraits of Ghetto doctors. The book offers many examples of doctors’ altruism and self-sacrifice. Their exact number is unknown, but Dr. Ciesielska lists the names of over 700 of them. Their tragic and often heroic stories will now be available to English readers, both in the medical community and in the general population interested in the history of the Warsaw Ghetto.”— Claude Romney, Professor Emerita, University of Calgary\u003cbr\u003e“The Warsaw Ghetto is one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, ending with the Great Deportation to Treblinka’s gas chambers; at the same time, the Ghetto offers an empowering story of a new and resourceful system of medical care which was a form of sustained resistance to the Nazi occupation. Maria Ciesielska tells this story vividly: she offers many new insights into the Jewish physicians and nurses confined to the Ghetto. It is a narrative of hope in efforts to create a new system of healthcare, and of dark violence from the Nazi authorities in their determination to destroy the Ghetto. The culmination is the heroic resistance of the Ghetto Uprising. We are offered a vivid and authoritative narrative with many new and often touching insights in the efforts to overcome epidemics and starvation. Dr. Ciesielska has created a lucidly written and inspiring book.”— Paul Weindling, Research Professor in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ciesielska, however, a specialist in family medicine and an expert in the history of medicine, has delved into the various archives in Poland, producing highly impressive findings. She presents a new, preliminary database, which will serve as a foundation for additional studies and is a significant contribution to commemorating Jewish doctors, both men and women. …Ciesielska’s findings are impressive and an invaluable achievement. Her methodically written book follows a chronological development placed in broad historical contexts and enriched by diverse sources. …Maria Ciesielska’s book sheds light on the ‘other side of the coin’ in its description of Jewish doctors. They left behind a written legacy that is also still relevant today. Their stories provide food for thought on the potential of maintaining ethical and professional strength, even in the most difficult circumstances, and of the ability to resist the forces of evil while continuing to provide patients with devoted medical care in impossible and unexpected conditions. The book also draws attention to the dozens of non-Jewish doctors, who assisted their Jewish colleagues while risking their own lives. Although their numbers were few, their inspirational actions were extraordinary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College, Israel, \u003ci\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This meticulous account of the Warsaw Ghetto’s medical community, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, is a long overdue tribute to an era’s unsung heroes. Drawing extensively on archives, with appendices and a photo gallery listing over seven hundred individuals, backgrounds, specialties, hospital affiliations, the author sheds light on a subculture that emerged in 1940, following the ghetto’s establishment, and their dedication under the most hellish of environments to saving or helping Jewish lives. …This poignant but well-researched book is essential for Holocaust collections.”\u003c\/p\u003e— Hallie Cantor, Yeshiva University, \u003ci\u003eAJL News \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD BY PROFESSOR MICHAEL  BERENBAUM\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD BY LUC ALBINSKI \u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO THE JEWISH  COMMUNITY IN POLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II: THE MEDICAL SYSTEM IN  PRE-WAR POLAND\u003cbr\u003eDoctors  in pre-war Poland\u003cbr\u003eThe  education of doctors in Poland\u003cbr\u003eCareer prospects of doctors in Poland\u003cbr\u003eJewish  doctors in Poland\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER III: JEWISH DOCTORS AND  ANTI-SEMITISM BETWEEN THE WARS\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Semitism  in Academia\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Semitism  in the Association of Doctors of the Polish State\u003cbr\u003eActivities  of the Association of Doctors of the Polish Republic\u003cbr\u003eJews  in the Warsaw Medical Society\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IV: HEALTHCARE DURING AND IN  THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1939 SIEGE OF WARSAW\u003cbr\u003eThe  Czyste (Old Order) Hospital for Orthodox Jews\u003cbr\u003eThe Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  Ujazdowski Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  activities of the Jewish community organizations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER V: HEALTHCARE PRIOR TO THE  CREATION OF THE GHETTO\u003cbr\u003eThe  Polish medical system under occupation\u003cbr\u003eCreation  of the \u003ci\u003eJudenrat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe  functioning of the medical chambers\u003cbr\u003eThe  activities of TOZ\u003cbr\u003eThe  Czyste Jewish Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital\u003cbr\u003ePharmacies\u003cbr\u003eEmergency  services\u003cbr\u003eThe  threat of labor camps\u003cbr\u003eTreatment  of Jewish converts\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VI: HEALTHCARE AFTER THE  SEALING OF THE WARSAW GHETTO\u003cbr\u003eThe  doctors in the Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eActivities  of the Judenrat’s Health Department\u003cbr\u003eThe  fight against epidemics\u003cbr\u003eTOZ  activities after the sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eEmergency  services\u003cbr\u003eThe Czyste  Jewish Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  hospital at 109 Leszno Street\u003cbr\u003ePharmacies\u003cbr\u003eThe  Chemical and Bacteriological Institute\u003cbr\u003eMedical  care for the Jewish Police\u003cbr\u003eThe  prisons\u003cbr\u003eChristian Convert Doctors\u003cbr\u003eMental  health in the Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eThe  threat of labor camps\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VII: THE GREAT DEPORTATION  (\u003ci\u003eGROSSAKTION\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eEvents  leading to the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003eThe  murder of Dr. Franciszek Raszeja\u003cbr\u003eHostage  taking\u003cbr\u003eThe  Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003eCzyste  Jewish Hospital\u003cbr\u003eThe  General Hospital on Stawki Street\u003cbr\u003eDoctors  during the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003ePharmacists  during the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003eDoctors  in the Jewish Police during the Deportation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VIII: HEALTHCARE AFTER THE  GREAT DEPORTATION\u003cbr\u003eThe  Hospital on 6–8 Gęsia Street\u003cbr\u003eDoctors  after the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003eNurses  after the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003ePharmacists  after the Great Deportation\u003cbr\u003eEmergency  Services after the Deportation\u003cbr\u003eThe  Fate of the Gęsia Street Hospital\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IX: THE GHETTO UPRISING AND  ITS AFTERMATH\u003cbr\u003eThe  last hospital in the Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eThe  fate of Jewish doctors after the Deportation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER X: RESISTANCE BY THE MEDICAL  FRATERNITY\u003cbr\u003eThe  underground medical school\u003cbr\u003eThe  Blum-Bielicka School of Nursing\u003cbr\u003eStudies in Hunger  Disease\u003cbr\u003eStudies in Typhus\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XI: CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE I: LIST OF JEWISH DOCTORS  WHO WERE ARRESTED AND HELD HOSTAGE IN 1940 FOLLOWING ANDRZEJ KOTT’S ESCAPE  FROM THE GESTAPO\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE II: LIST OF NON-ARYAN  DOCTORS IN WARSAW FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL INSTITUTE\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE III: LIST OF JEWISH DOCTORS  WORKING AND LIVING IN WARSAW IN 1940–1942\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE IV: THE DOCTORS MOVED FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO TO THE ŁÓDŹ  GHETTO IN 1941\/42\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE V: SCHEDULE OF PHARMACIES OVERSEEN BY THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT  OF THE \u003ci\u003eJUDENRAT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE VI: A LIST OF PHARMACIES OVERSEEN BY THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT  OF THE \u003ci\u003eJUDENRAT \u003c\/i\u003eIN THE GHETTO IN SEPTEMBER 1942. ANNEXURE VII: DOCTORS SAVING JEWS IN WARSAW IN 1939–1945\u003cbr\u003eANNEXURE VIII: PHOTOGRAPHS OF SELECTED DOCTORS AND NURSES\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359913541975,"sku":"9781644697269","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644697269.jpg?v=1754126096","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-doctors-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-9781644697269","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}