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Marie Curie was a famed Polish-born, French-naturalized scientist who studied radiology and was awarded two Nobel Prizes for her work on radium and for the discovery of two elements, radium and polonium (named after Poland). She contributed, and…

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Dr. Opalski was one of the original members of the team, an assistant physician to the director, Dr. Bruk.

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Dr. Bruk was the medical director of the USC medical mission and later, of the Piekary Hospital

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The Kosciuszko Hospital was the joint effort of the Unitarian Service Committee's Polish Medical Team and ZUS, the Polish Social Insurance Agency. The team was tasked with repairing and restocking the hospital, including importing the latest American…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Mrs. Tonia Lechtman was the fourth member of the team, and was actually in charge of putting the team together from Switzerland, where Noel Field was based in 1944. Her husband had fought in the International Brigade that fought against Franco in…

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By the time the Polish Medical Team had arrived, the found the hospital abandoned and empty, having been previously occupied and looted by the Germans and the Russians. There were no supplies, no equipment, and even the sinks were ripped out, except…

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Silesia was known for its large coal deposits that easily mined. Coal was one of the few, and the main, Polish export in the years immediately following WWII.
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