Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Warsaw Jewish Nursing School

  • The nursing school in the Warsaw Ghetto

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Despite extreme hardship and abject terror, the nursing school in the Warsaw Ghetto continued to provide the highest level of nursing education possible.”1 The Warsaw Jewish Nursing School was established in 1923 as part of the Czyste (“clean” in Polish) Jewish Hospital. The school received support from the Warsaw city government and…