Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce

The Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population in Poland

Identifier: 321
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

1922/1950

History

Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce was founded in 1922, its main activity before the war was preventive health care for the Jewish masses, efforts to improve hygienic and sanitary conditions, education, and preventive medicine. Above all it combated typhus, tuberculosis, and infectious children’s diseases. TOZ had more than 400 medical centers and sanitary clinics. After a hiatus, it restarted its activities in 1946, but in 1950 its medical centers were nationalized, its property was confiscated, and the organization was closed down.

Sources

The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city / B. Engelking, J. Leociak. – New Haven, 2009. – p. 840

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722)
1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn615089
- English
- 1922-1940
- 75 microfilm reels, 16 mm 147,634 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Consist of records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris: an organization statute, registration forms, files of the New York office; correspondence with branches in Riga, Budapest, Warsaw, and other European cities; and the Red Cross. Includes correspondence on visas and aid for emigrants, on the arrest of JDC official Isaac Gitterman, funding the evacuation of the Executive Committee from Paris to Bordeaux, and plans for refugee settlement in Haiti and South America. Other documents include cables on the hardships of Jews in Warsaw, a repor...
American OSE Committee (RG 494)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564187
- English
- 1941-1955
- 17,218 digital images, JPEG 30 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...
Collection of photographs from various files Fotografie z różnych dokumentów (Sygn. BN)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47522
- English
- 1944-1950
- 20 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains various photographs of the size of membership cards or passports, made in the early post-war years. They were attached to various documents (mainly from the records of the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training ( World ORT Union; ORT), the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej (Society for Health-Protection of the Jewish Population in Poland; TOZ), and Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (Central Committe of the Jews in Poland; CKŻP): Department of Emigration, personal files), however, over several dozen years they were, due to unknown circumstances, separated from tho...
Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- M.28
- English
- 1939-1942
- 7 files
- Updated 1 decade ago
The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts: 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland; 2. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland; 3. AJDC correspondence with Jewish institutions and organizations outside of Poland; 4. Survey reports, charts and statistical data. 1. Correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland, August 1940-January 1942, including requests for the issuing of various permits, such as...
Health Care Organization of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydow w Polsce (TOZ), Sygn. 324
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516513
- English
- 1945-1950
- 89,203 digital images, JPEG 80 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records related to the health conditions of Poles and Jews who survived the Holocaust and repatriates returning to Poland from the Soviet Union. The majority of the documents relate to child care, and to cooperation with international organizations.The most complete records are from Łódź, Warsaw, Dzierzoniów, Wrocław, Kraków and Szczecin. Materials include name indexes.
Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw Ministerstwo Administracji Publicznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 199)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551211
- English
- 1945-1950
- 25,676 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP), Jewish political parties, organizations (e.g. Joint, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Polamit), statistical data and Jewish religious congregations,...
Records of the Jewish Health Organization (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej), Lwów Branch (Fond 503)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523502
- English
- 1923-1939
- 17 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records of the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zydowskiej (TOZ) of the Lwów. Records relate to the TOZ activities in the Eastern Galicia ( Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisławów counties) during the interwar period. The collection consists of several major types of documents divided into six categories: 1. Bylaws, programs of the activities of the organization, circulatory letters of the central office in Warsaw, monthly reports; 2. Documents related to the activities of the organization and its local sections; 3. Correspondence with the central office of the organization in Warsaw and its local br...
Rząd Generalnego Gubernatorstwa General Government Regierung des Generalgouvernements (Sygn. 111)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551209
- English
- 1939-1945
- 50,779 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected records from the following departments of the Regierung des Generalgouvernements (General Government) in Poland: 1. The Department of Internal Administration (Haubtabteilung Innere Verwaltung), which includes records relating to matters such as the organization of the Sonderdienst and Baudienst; religious denominations and national minorities; registry books of the Jewish population in the districts of Krakow, Radom, Warsaw, and Lublin; and the list of books owned by Jews and transferred to the National Library in Krakow, 1939-1944, (File 422/1-573), 2. The Department of Labor (Hau...
Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn. 804) : Wybrane materiały
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn614057
- English
- 1945-1950
- 5,902 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Statistical data, correspondence, minutes, registration of war damages, records of the population, records related to the property of Jewish communities, and so-called productivisation of the Jewish population after the war, lists and other materials concerning associations and unions, lists of the mass graves of war victims, and loss or granting of Polish citizenship, documents regarding civil status and the help for the victims of prisons and Nazi camps, as well as other materials.
World Union OSE-Paris Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594585
- English
- 1940-1950
- 37,924 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains administration files of the OSE Main Office Paris. Records relate mainly to the organization activities after World War II, and include: memorandums, correspondence, financial statements and budgets, lists of children treated by the OSE in Belgium, 1945-46, publications and pamphlets from other organizations, OSE newsletters, and audit reports from various countries.