Page 21 - Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana. Edelman. The Man

‘Strangely enough, the Berson and
Bauman hospital, where I worked as
an office boy, was an enclave amidst
the horror of the outside world. The
atmosphere was as if nothing was
happening, the doctors saw only an ill
child. Children were always admitted

– they were lying in drawers and
everywhere. Despite the low chances of
survival, there were no such calculations
as to whom to give (e.g., a meal, which
was very difficult to obtain) and who is
lost anyway’.

Marek
Edelman

Working as a messenger in the Berson and Bauman Children’s
Hospital, Marek Edelman delivered patient records and blood
samples to the Hygiene Office; after autopsies he also stitched
up the corpses of children who had died of typhus and took
them away. Because of this he possessed a pass which entitled
him to go to the Aryan side. However, he did not want to leave
the ghetto – he felt responsible for those who were left there,
and was connected to his political organization.

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Berson and Bauman Childen’s Hospital, archival photo from the 1930s. Public
domain