Izba Zdrowia w Warszawie Gesundheitskammer Warschau (Sygn.497)
Extent and Medium
7,160 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Gesundheitskammer im Generalgouvernement
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
- World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Medical personnel--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers.
- Pharmacists--Poland--Registers.
- Jewish physicians--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--History.
- National socialism and medicine.
- Nurses--Poland--Registers.
- Dentists--Poland--Registers.
Genre
- Questionnaires.
- Document
- Registers.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie