Area Physician of the Office of the Drohobytsch (Drohobycz, Drohobych) Area Head

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний Архів Львівської області

Title:: Area Physician of the Office of the Drohobytsch (Drohobycz, Drohobych) Area Head

Title (official language):: ОКРУЖНЫЙ ЛІКАР ДРОГОБИЦЬКОГО ОКРУЖНОГО СТАРОСТВА

Creator/accumulator:: Area Physician of the Office of the Drohobytsch (Drohobycz, Drohobych) Area Head

Scope and content:: Materials housed in the fond pertain to the history of the Holocaust; in particular, there are reports from the Judenrat of Drohobycz on disease conditions in the Jewish ghetto (1942); and a letter from the Judenrat of Drohobycz to the chief physician of the District of Galicia containing a list of members of the Judenrat who had been deported (to death camps) on 7 and 8 August 1942.

Administrative/biographical history:: The position of physician of the Office of the Drohobytsch (Drohobycz, Drohobych) Area Head was established in 1941. This official was appointed from among representatives of the occupation administration and was directly subordinate to the Chamber of Health of the District of Galicia. At the same time, the area physician served as head of the local health council. His duties included organizing medical institutions and accommodations for them; registering medical personnel; monitoring sanitary conditions in the area, including in the territory of the ghetto; countering the spread of infectious diseases and organizing anti-epidemic measures in the area; etc. This position was liquidated upon the arrival in the city of units of the Red Army in the summer of 1994.

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Health and medical matters; Health and medical matters--Diseases; Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses; Holocaust; Holocaust--Deportation; Holocaust--Ghettos

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematized partly by document type, and partly chronologically.