Izba Zdrowia w Warszawie Gesundheitskammer Warschau (Sygn.497)

Identifier
irn607807
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.152.1
  • RG-15.377
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

7,160 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The records of the Chamber of Health (Gesundheitskammer) in Warsaw were probably evacuated in 1944 from Warsaw via Sochaczew and reached Poznań, where at the beginning of 1945 the Red Army confiscated them. The records were later transferred to the State Archives in Warsaw. The collection is fragmentary, as only a small percentage of the records survived. It is the only one group of records of the District Chamber of Health in the former Generalgouvernement Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn. 497. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.

Scope and Content

Selected materials from the records of the Gesundheitskammer, an organization established by the German occupation authorities to govern the administration of health services in occupied Poland. The records include hundreds of personal files: questionnaires of Jewish health professionals "Questionnaire for the first submission of medical professions" ("Fragebogen erstmaligen zur Meldung der Heilberufe"). The questionnaires contain personal details, information about family, education, work history, and a photograph.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in two series: 1. Questionnaires of Jewish health professionals (organized alphabetically); 2. Various documents related to employment of Jewish health professionals.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

Genre

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