Henryk, Thaddeusz and Ludwik Stabholz: Three Outstanding Physicians from a Jewish Medical Family in Mid-20th Century Poland

Abstract

The article discusses the biographies of a family of three Jewish physicians in Poland during the Jewish Holocaust in the middle of the 20th century, with information on discrimination against medical practice by Jews and the rate of survival of Jewish medical practitioners in Poland during World War II. Topics include the careers and education of the Jewish physicians Henryk, Thaddeusz, and Ludwik Stabholz; the Stabholz family's association with the Czyste Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, Poland; and the efforts by incarcerated Jewish doctors to provide treatment for prisoners in concentration camps.