Dorothea B. Jones with new refrigerator in the laboratory of main hospital pavilion
Polish Medical Mission
Dorothea Jones was an American young woman from Beacon Hill, MA who, after being turned down by UNRRA, started working for the USC's French Office under Noel Field. She was appointed a member of the Polish Medical Team that, starting in 1944, assisted Polish DPs in returning to Poland, first in France, then British occupied Germany, then finally in Piekary, Silesia, where she was made the USC Director in Poland.
Alex Chen
Work 53. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (6) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
1944-1949
Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
Photograph
Arrival of new operating table from America. Howard L. Brooks and Dr. A. Powell Davies watch while Dr. Bruk, medical director, tries it out
Polish Medical Mission
As a trauma center, the Kościuszko Hospital had four surgical wards and one medical ward, and much of the work done by the USC was with importing and setting up surgical equipment. Dr. Powell Davies was a unitarian minister who spoke at the official opening, and Howard Brooks was the assistant director of the Unitarian Service Committee.
Alex Chen
Work 16. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (7) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
1948
Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
Photograph
Patient being x-rayed with portable x-ray while Dr. A. Powell Davies looks on
Polish Medical Mission
X-ray had become such a critical piece of equipment since WWI that it was one of the first pieces of equipment that needed to be imported to the hospital. Just a few decades earlier, Röntgen rays (X-ray) was discovered in 1895, and the phenomenon became quickly utilized to create diagnostic instrumentation, especially useful for lung and bone conditions, two parts of of the body that is particularly important for miners.
Alex Chen
Work 19. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (7) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
1947
Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
Photograph
USC NYC Warehouse
USC Medical Missions
All supplies and equipment sent to Poland from America left these doors before boarding ships bound for Europe.
Alex Chen
Ghanda DiFiglia, Roots and Visions : The First Fifty Years of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Boston: UUSC, 1990, 1990);
1945-1949
Photograph
USC Procurement Map
USC Medical Mission
All supplies and equipments sent to Poland were purchased at various companies around New York City, centralized at the warehouse, and then shipped to Poland.
Alex Chen
Alex Chen
1945-1949
Static Map