Creator Bio
Israel Milejkowski
d. ca. 1943
Israel Milejkowski was a physician at the Czyste St. Hospital in Warsaw. When the Nazis invaded the city, Milejkowski served as head of the Judenrat’s health department, in which capacity he documented the effects of hunger on the ghetto’s population. He also aimed to show that the Jewish spirit did not fail under dire conditions. Milejkowski himself perished either in Warsaw or while being transported to Treblinka.
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Answer to the Oyneg Shabes Questionnaire
. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…