Fragebogen zur erstmaligen Meldung der Heilberuf - "Questionnaire for first registration for the medical profession" - stamp "JUDE" - Jewish. Warsaw Ghetto, March 1941. German.
Registration form for health professionals, named after Idel Halcband - dental technician. At the top of it is a "JUDE" stamp between two Stars of David, and Idel's passport photo. In the form, the Jewish medical professional was asked to fill in the citizenship details, the names of the parents and grandparents, the maiden name (in the form before us the maiden name Knoploch appears), whether he is engaged in other professions, the woman's maiden name, whether he participated in the First World War, in which institution he studied the medical profession, whether he belonged at any point to the Polish Wehrmacht, and more.
The form before us was signed in Warsaw on April 28, 1941, when hunger and overcrowding in the ghetto reached their peak. In March of that year, an additional 150,000 Jews were brought into the ghetto, and the typhus epidemic raged at full force. The Nazis knew that the Jewish doctors had the power to reduce the dimensions of the disease, and they activated a sophisticated control system to identify the number of Jewish doctors and the quality of their work, and to send them in a targeted manner to death camps. According to German documentation, by October 1941 the typhus epidemic was already at its peak. The chief medical officer in the German occupation government in Poland, Dr. Just Wolbaum, appeared before more than 100 military doctors and told them: "The Jews are carriers and spreaders of typhus. The only way to solve the problem is to kill all the inhabitants of the ghetto by starvation or by shooting them. We have one and only responsibility for our people: to act so that they will not become infected, get sick, and endanger their lives because of these pests." The audience rose to its feet and cheered him for a long time. Shortly after that meeting, the head of the SS, General Heydrich, "the architect of the final solution", ordered the chief medical officer to implement the extermination of the Jews in the ghetto. (However, it should be noted that Dr. Hirshfeld and Jewish doctors alongside him gave hundreds of secret lectures to the general public, provided fast professional courses on hygiene and medicine, shared their knowledge and experience, and established an underground medical university to train and guide young people who intended to study medicine, thus successfully reducing the spread of the disease in the ghetto during the winter months).
Folded form, [3] p., 32 cm. Fold marks. Slight tears along the fold marks. Good condition.
