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Portrait of a starving child in a hospital in the Warsaw ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 60731
Portrait of a starving child in a hospital in the Warsaw ghetto.

Portrait of a starving child in a hospital in the Warsaw ghetto.

Date
Circa 1942
Locale
Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale
Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Children -- Health/Medical Care
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of See Published Source

About This Photograph

Event History
One photograph from a published report entitled "Maladie de famine: recherches cliniques sur la famine executees dans le ghetto de Varsovie en 1942" [The Disease of Hunger: Clinical Research on Starvation Undertaken in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942]. The research on the effects of starvation on children and adults was conducted by several Jewish physicians employed in the Berson and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital on Sliska Street in Warsaw. (From 1940-1942 this hospital was located in the small ghetto.) The published report took the form of a series of articles by individual doctors who conducted their research independently. The report, which included photographs and testimonies, was smuggled out of the ghetto in 1942 or 1943. All of the participating physicians, with the exception of the editor Prof. Emil Apfelbaum, perished during the war. Apfelbaum died while the book was in press in 1946.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: See Published Source
Published Source
Maladie de famine: recherches cliniques sur la famine...dans le ghetto de Varsovie - Apfelbaum, Emil (ed.) - American Joint Distribution Committee
 
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