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A Cordial Reception (for American Scientists visiting Poland)
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Polish Medical Teaching Mission, Polish science and medicine, Reconstruction of Poland
Description
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Illustrating an article entitled "American Scientists Visit Poland," the image / text was authored by Dr. Bronislaw Zawadzki, Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Medical School of Warsaw University. The trip was sponsored by UNRRA and arranged by the Unitarian Service Committee, and involved 6 American professors of medicine. Dr. Zawadzki was subsequently awarded a fellowship of the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Fund in Boston and went to the Department of Neurology at Columbia University.
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Alex Chen
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Poland of Today. February 1947 issue. p. 10
Date
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1946-1947
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The nature or genre of the resource
Photograph
chr_1946
geo_Poland
medicine
mission
science
tour
USC
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The Marie Curie-Sklodowska Institute in Warsaw, in 1945 and 1947, Reconstruction
Subject
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Polish science and medicine, Reconstruction, Warsaw
Description
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Marie Curie, with friends family, and governmental support, was able to set up the Radium Institute in Warsaw. "A prominent group of American women, close friends of Madame Curie and devoted to the cause of America's fight against cancer, donated one gram of radium to the Institute. Thus Poland was able to take up her own large-scale fight against scourge of this mankind." The Institute was a hospital, lab, and library, but was closed and then partially destroyed during the war. The hospital continued operating until August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising. The Gestapo sought the radium that was hidden in the building, (1 gram hidden, 720 mg was handed over to the Germans). After the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans destroyed the building, killed the staff and patients (or moved them to Concentration Camps) and moved expensive equipment like X-rays back to Germany. The director was able to bribe a few German soldiers and rescue the radium amidst the ruins. After the war, the statue of Marie-Curie, like that of Copernicus, was left intact underneath the rubble. The Institute was restored with the aid of UNRRA resources. The photograph on the left was taken in 1945, the image on the right was taken in 1947.
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Alex Chen
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Poland of Today, April, 1947 Issue. p. 12-13.
Date
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1932-1947
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Photograph
before
chr_1930s
geo_Poland
medicine
reconstruction
science
X-ray
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Saving the Future in Europe
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Unitarian Service Committee, Relief work
Description
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This is the cover of a publicity pamphlet, most likely distributed to USC donors. The pamphlet entered the Harvard University Library collection on October 31st, 1942. The ~50 page document illustrated the work of the USC's medical clinic in Marseilles up until early 1942, and is filled with pictures of patients being taken care of, used to indicate both the need for relief work and the "satisfactory" progress that the committee was making. The Polish team was organized by Noel H. Field, a communist sympathizer / spy and American citizen, who in 1942 was leading the clinic in France. It was he who brought together Dr. Bruk, Opalski, Tonia Lechtman, and Dorothea Jones in 1944 to begin the Polish medical mission in France, working in Polish DP camps.
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Alex Chen.
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Unitarian Service Committee, Saving the Future in Europe. (Boston, 194-, 194AD). Widener Library, Harvard University.
Date
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1941-1942
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Pamphlet, Cover Design
chr_1947
geo_Poland
humanitarian aid
medicine
mission
USC
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Title
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Nicholas Copernicus
Subject
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Polish Science and Medicine
Description
An account of the resource
Nicholas Copernicus is heavily featured in Polish history of science and medicine, his greatest contribution is arguably formulating the hypothesis that the earth revolves around the sun.
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Alex Chen
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Public Domain Image hosted at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nicolaus_Copernicus_portraits#/media/File:Kopernikus,_Nikolaus_Epitaph_Thorn.jpg
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Accessed 2015. 1473 - 1543.
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Public Domain
Type
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Painting
chr_1500s
geo_Poland
history
medicine
science
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Title
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Marie Curie
Subject
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Polish Science and Medicine
Description
An account of the resource
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 indeed drove them into the battlefield, to the use of mobile X-ray units during WWI, establishing the importance of X-ray use in medicine. She later founded an institute of radiation in Warsaw, which was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt by 1947.
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Alex Chen
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Public Domain Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie#/media/File:Mariecurie.jpg
Date
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1867 - 1934
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Public Domain
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Photograph
chr_19thcentury
geo_Poland
medicine
science
X-ray
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Polish Displaced Persons Camp
Subject
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Reconstruction of Poland, Repatriation, Polish Medical Mission
Description
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Photograph in the USC committee, the Polish Medical Team started their work with visiting various DP camps in 1945, helping Polish DPs return to Poland.
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Alex Chen
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Work 14. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980, bMS 16076/6 (19) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
Date
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1945
Type
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Photograph
chr_1939-1949
DP
geo_France
medicine
mission
refugee
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Dr. Josef Opalski
Subject
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Polish Medical Missions
Description
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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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Alex Chen
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Work 29. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (6) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
Date
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1944-1949
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Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives.
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Photograph
chr_1945-1949
doctor
geo_Poland
medicine
mission
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Dr. Opalski sorting out medicine brought from the German Polish DP hospital
Subject
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Polish Medical Mission
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Alex Chen.
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Work 38. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (6) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
Date
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1947
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Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
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Photograph
chr_1945-1949
doctor
geo_Poland
hospital
laboratory
medicine
USC
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Dorothea B. Jones with new refrigerator in the laboratory of main hospital pavilion
Subject
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Polish Medical Mission
Description
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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, 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.
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Alex Chen
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Work 53. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (6) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
Date
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1944-1949
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Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
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Photograph
chr_1945-1949
director
equipment
geo_Poland
hospital
laboratory
medicine
reconstruction
USC
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Patient being x-rayed with portable x-ray while Dr. A. Powell Davies looks on
Subject
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Polish Medical Mission
Description
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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 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.
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Alex Chen
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Work 19. USCA, Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1941-1986, bMS 16181/5 (7) , Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University
Date
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1947
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Andover-Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives
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Photograph
chr_1945-1949
doctor
equipment
geo_Poland
hospital
medicine
reconstruction
X-ray