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World Study Tour No. 18
In the summer of 1947, Herman Field, brother of Noel Field, organized a tour for students that examined reconstruction efforts in Poland and other European countries. The group stayed at the Piekary Hospital for 2 nights.
Warsaw 1939 - 1945, Page from Magazine
A page layout from Poland of Today
The Marie Curie-Sklodowska Institute in Warsaw, in 1945 and 1947, Reconstruction
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…
Poland Natural Resource Map, 1959
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.
Patient being x-rayed with portable x-ray while Dr. A. Powell Davies looks on
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…
Kosciuszko Hospital
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…
Hospital ward in disrepair, Piekary Hospital
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…
High-tension networks, electric grid, Poland 1946 - 1048
The importance of coal in the Silesian region cannot be under-estimated. One of its uses was for electricity generation, with the first generation of high-tension power lines planned as shown on the map.
Dorothea B. Jones with new refrigerator in the laboratory of main hospital pavilion
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,…
Copernicus Monument in Warsaw, 1946
The statue of Copernicus stand amidst the rubble of post-war Warsaw, with two boys sitting on its pedestal. Symbol of Poland's / scientific establishment's fame and resilience.