Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2012) 121-144
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
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Nazi concentration camps
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish physicians
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Wielkopolska (Poland)
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Poznań (Poland)
Abstract:
During 1941-43, there were 29 forced labor camps for Jews operating in the region of Poznań. The Jews were mostly taken from the Łódź ghetto and the provincial ghettos of the Reichsgau Wartheland. The Jews suffered from various infectious diseases, and had numerous ulcerations and wounds. Typhus fever plagued most prisoners. In the framework of efforts to halt its spread, a few Jewish physicians were brought from Berlin to treat the prisoners. The owners of the German companies for which the Jews were working were also interested in keeping them alive to protect their own interests. The physicians were limited in their ability to help due to lack of medications, a ban on hospital treatment of Jews, and the impossibility of maintaining a proper level of hygiene in the camps. The Jewish hospital set up in the city did not comply with any medical/sanitary standards; many patients died there. Out of nine identified physicians sent to work in Poznań, only three survived the war.
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