The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto

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 "Based 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"-- Provided by publisher Introduction to the Jewish Community in Poland -- The Medical System in Prewar Poland -- Jewish Doctors and Antisemitism between the Wars -- Healthcare during and in the Aftermath of the 1939 Siege of Warsaw -- Healthcare Prior to the Creation of the Ghetto -- Healthcare after the Sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto -- The Great Deportation (Grossaktion) -- Healthcare after the Great Deportation -- The Ghetto Uprising and its Aftermath. -- : Resistance by the Medical Fraternity