This fonds consists of various documents from different periods and different administrative creators. History of the fonds dates back to 1938 when after the signing of the Munich Agreement, the Czechoslovak government issued an order No. 292 to establish the Institute for the Care of Refugees at the Ministry of Social Welfare (Ústav pro péči o uprchlíky při ministerstvu sociální péče). The Institute ...

The collection consists of labels and postcards relating to restrictions regarding medical care and correspondence imposed upon Jews by the Nazi government, 1933-1945.

An account of medical experiments conducted by Nazis on imprisoned Jewish women in Block 10 building within Auschwitz Concentration Camp based on written memoirs, court records, government documents and other sources including interviews with survivors. 319, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Daniel Paul is pseud. van A.W. Lipman Kessel. [x], 227 p., [13] p.pl. : ill., krt. ; 21 cm.

Contains records relating to Jewish community of Łódź dwellers before War World II. Includes records of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and houses of prayer; appointments of rabbis, religious celebrations and ritual matters; social welfare matters such as day care for children, and care of orphans; a list of children under the custody of a community; applications for allowances, holiday rations of food ...

A finding aid to the collection was created by Robin Eaton in the mid-1980s and updated by Sarah Lemann in 2011.

Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)

Met lit. opg. 179 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Revised thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 1998/1999. 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Previously published: Paris : Editions France-Empire, 1968. 374 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

"The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience considers how the First World War (1914-1918) affected mental and physical health, its treatment, and how the victims - not only soldiers and sailors, but also medics, and even society as a whole - tried to cope with the wounds sustained. The volume, which contains over twenty articles divided into four sections (military, personal, medical, and ...

"In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated from medical school in Krakow--was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in the camp, and workers were dying. In 1943, Stefan, now a functionary prisoner, was put in charge of ...

Colored ill. mounted on p. 233. 311, [1] pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Hanna Heyt, a young woman married to Thomas, a doctor and medical researcher, is stricken with multiple sclerosis. She pleads with her husband and his friend Werther, also a doctor, to assist in her death. Werther refuses, but Thomas complies. After seeing what happened to a young child with meningitis whom he saved, Werther has second thoughts about refusing Hanna and testifies at Thomas' trial. The ...

Caroline Woolsey Ferriday (1902-1990) was the only child of Henry Ferriday, a New York dry goods merchant, and Eliza Woolsey Ferriday. After a brief acting career on Broadway, she began working as a volunteer at the French consulate in New York City. During World War II she raised money to assist French children, particularly war orphans. After the war, she aided victims of pseudo-scientific experiments ...

Reel 1: "Displaced Persons" Displaced persons in Germany are herded into a field; given food, clothing, and medical care; interviewed by officials of the American Military Government.; and assigned billets in a camp. "By Request" Shows brief shots of Charleston, WV; Springfield, IL; Newark, NJ; Tucson and Winslow, AZ; Whiteville, VA; and Fall River, MA.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-241) and index. x, 246 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Stefan Buthner (1913-1994), named Stefan Budziaszek until 1950, was born on April 24, 1913. He studied medicine at the university of Krakow and subsequently worked there as a resident. During the German occupation of Poland, Budziaszek was arrested and was committed to Auschwitz concentration camp on February 10, 1942. Via different work detachments and satellite camps, he was then transferred to Auschwitz ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index. viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

"The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the ...

Provides a close-up look at the story behind Berlin's Jewish Hospital, the only Jewish institution in Germany to survive the Holocaust, drawing on accounts of survivors to describe daily life in the hospital under the Nazis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index. xxii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

OEuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) was a worldwide organization for child care, health and hygiene among Jews, with headquarters in Paris. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The name OSE was originally an acronym for Obshchestvo Zdravokhraneniya Yevreyev (Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews). The OSE maintained branches in Russia, Poland, Rumania and Central and Western Europe. ...