Open AccessOfficial Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941
Author(s) -
Marta Janczewska
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
zagłada żydów
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-3571
pISSN - 1895-247X
DOI - 10.32927/zzsim.819
Subject(s) - judaism , the holocaust , history , narrative , state (computer science) , classics , genealogy , law , political science , literature , art , archaeology , computer science , algorithm
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 theirhistory to the modern reader, they become elements of a great historical fresco