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    The Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, The Jewish Hospital in Czyste - a Jewish medical facility operating from 1902 to 1943 in Warsaw. For many years considered...
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    The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, 'Jewish Residential District in Warsaw'; Polish: getto warszawskie)...
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  • Shanghai Jewish Hospital, now Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University, (Shanghai, China) The Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, (Warsaw, Poland) Tunis Jewish Hospital...
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    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's...
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    of Jewish life in Poland during the German occupation, going beyond the framework of Jewish history in the Warsaw Ghetto; the history of the Warsaw Ghetto...
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    of Jewish Warsaw Polish–Jewish Relations section of the Polish Embassy in Washington Joanna Rohozinska, A Complicated Coexistence: Polish–Jewish relations...
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    Treblinka. The largest number of Warsaw Jews were transported to their deaths at Treblinka in the period between the Jewish holidays Tisha B'Av (23 July)...
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    The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw (Szpital Świętego Ducha w Warszawie) was a hospital originally built in 1442, at the church of St. Martin's...
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    Hospital was a Jewish medical facility operating from 1878 to 1942 in Warsaw at 51 Śliska Street/ 60 Sienna Street. In 1941, a branch of the hospital...
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    Marek Edelman (category Warsaw Ghetto inmates)
    a General Jewish Labour Bund activist. During the war he co-founded the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB). He took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...
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    of Jewish passivity is partly tied to the apparent lack of discussion regarding forms of Jewish resistance outside armed revolt. In 1940, the Warsaw ghetto...
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    Nożyków) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 6 Twarda Street, in the Śródmieście district of Warsaw, in the Masovian Voivodeship...
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  • The Pianist (2002 film) (category Films set in Warsaw)
    a Polish-Jewish pianist, is playing live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is besieged during the Nazi Germany's bombing of Warsaw. After escaping...
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    The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe)...
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    Adam Czerniaków (category Engineers from Warsaw)
    July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23...
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  • The Robinsons also included a group of Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) Warsaw ghetto fighters, who managed to leave...
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    Zofia Zamenhof (category Warsaw Ghetto inmates)
    Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw. Louis Falstein, The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland, Exposition Press, 1964, s. 493 Zofia Zamenhof cemetery.jewish.org...
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    Warsaw Uprising in 1944, four hospitals operated in the Wola district of Warsaw. The most dramatic moment in the wartime history of Wola's hospitals was...
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    Irena Sendler (category Health professionals from Warsaw)
    Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents...
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    Executions of POWs and massacres in military hospitals also took place during the battles in other districts of Warsaw, including Wola, Ochota, Mokotów, Powiśle...
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    Zivia Lubetkin (category Warsaw Uprising insurgents)
    November 1914 – 11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance...
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  • The Pianist (memoir) (category Novels set in Warsaw)
    Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World...
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    The Royal Castle in Warsaw (Polish: Zamek Królewski w Warszawie [ˈza.mɛk kruˈlɛf.ski v varˈʂa.vjɛ]) is a state museum and a national historical monument...
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    Abraham Gancwajch (category Warsaw Ghetto inmates)
    was a prominent Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto during the World War II occupation of Poland, and a Jewish kingpin of the ghetto underworld. Opinions...
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  • Polish poet of Jewish origin Stefan Wiechecki, 1896–1979, Polish writer who studied the Warsaw dialect the Ossolinski family Square of the Warsaw Uprisers (Powstańców...
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    driven in 1942-1943 from the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers of the Nazi extermination camps. The 400 most popular Jewish-Polish first names, in alphabetical...
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  • Zofia Sara Syrkin-Binsztejnowa (category Warsaw Ghetto inmates)
    within the Jewish Health Protection Society in Poland [pl]. She was the initiator of establishing a nursing school at the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw. After...
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    Janusz Korczak (category Writers from Warsaw)
    1911–1912, he became a director of Dom Sierot in Warsaw, an orphanage of his own design for Jewish children. He hired Wilczyńska as his assistant. There...
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    Nina Einhorn (category Warsaw Ghetto inmates)
    (1925–2002) was a Jewish Polish-born Swedish physician who conducted research in the field of gynaecological oncology. A survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, she...
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    order to confine Poland's Jewish population of 3.5 million for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto...
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