„Wielka cisza”. Recepcja wyników badań nad chorobą głodową w getcie warszawskim w powojennej Polsce i na świecie
„The Great Silence”. Reception of the results of the Warsaw Ghetto hunger disease research in postwar Poland and around the world
Author(s): Maria CiesielskaSubject(s): History, Jewish studies, Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: The Holocaust; the Warsaw Ghetto; starvation; doctors in the ghetto; scientific research in the Warsaw Ghetto
Summary/Abstract: The Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Disease Study was a study taken up by Jewish doctors imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Despite the risk of execution and their own poor physical conditions a group of Jewish doctors headed by dr. Israel Milejkowski decided to study and describe the physiological and psychological effects of prolonged starvation. The study had started in February and had ended in August 1942 with the mass deportation and murder of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in Treblinka Death Camp. The study manuscript was smuggled out of the ghetto and kept by the Polish doctor Professor Witold Orłowski. Immediately after the end of the war it was published in Polish (1946) and French (1947) by Joint under the title: Hunger Disease: Hunger Research Carried out in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. The article analyzes the post-war reception of the book in Poland and around the world. The author tries to answer the question why so few reviews of this publication appeared in scientific journals and the press.
Journal: Medycyna Nowożytna Studia nad Kulturą Medyczną
- Issue Year: 31/2025
- Issue No: Supl. 2
- Page Range: 219-240
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Polish
