Farmacie v ghettu Terezín

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Farmacie v ghettu Terezín

Original language description

Viewed through the prism of the history of pharmacy, the life stories of the pharmacists serving in the Terezín Ghetto constitute a hitherto unexplored subject, just as the system of supplying the Ghetto with medicaments, their distribution and the rules of local pharmacotherapy. Pharmacy, or probably just storage of medicaments, formed the fixed component of the Ghetto’s health system. Its Health-care Department launched its activities under highly improvised conditions, but thanks to maximum efforts exerted by the imprisoned medical personnel the pharmacy eventually grew into a large and relatively well-functioning structure of the camp’s health-care facilities. In terms of quantity, the system kept improving but remained imbalanced qualitatively. In spite of official assurances of the sufficient stock of drugs, in actual fact, medicaments had been smuggled into the Ghetto throughout its existence. For instance, sulfonamides, forerunners of today’s antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections, were highly demanded in the camp. Dozens of pharmacists from the Protectorate, as well as pharmacists from Germany and Austria (frequently elderly people), worked in the Ghetto. Most of the Protectorate pharmacists had been later deported to the extermination and concentration camps in the East where they perished, with very few exceptions. However, some of them lived to see their liberation in the Terezín Ghetto. The Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague keeps orders of medicaments and other medical documents, especially from the years 1944–1945, which have been analyzed here in terms of the history of pharmacy.

Czech name

Farmacie v ghettu Terezín

Czech description

Viewed through the prism of the history of pharmacy, the life stories of the pharmacists serving in the Terezín Ghetto constitute a hitherto unexplored subject, just as the system of supplying the Ghetto with medicaments, their distribution and the rules of local pharmacotherapy. Pharmacy, or probably just storage of medicaments, formed the fixed component of the Ghetto’s health system. Its Health-care Department launched its activities under highly improvised conditions, but thanks to maximum efforts exerted by the imprisoned medical personnel the pharmacy eventually grew into a large and relatively well-functioning structure of the camp’s health-care facilities. In terms of quantity, the system kept improving but remained imbalanced qualitatively. In spite of official assurances of the sufficient stock of drugs, in actual fact, medicaments had been smuggled into the Ghetto throughout its existence. For instance, sulfonamides, forerunners of today’s antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections, were highly demanded in the camp. Dozens of pharmacists from the Protectorate, as well as pharmacists from Germany and Austria (frequently elderly people), worked in the Ghetto. Most of the Protectorate pharmacists had been later deported to the extermination and concentration camps in the East where they perished, with very few exceptions. However, some of them lived to see their liberation in the Terezín Ghetto. The Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague keeps orders of medicaments and other medical documents, especially from the years 1944–1945, which have been analyzed here in terms of the history of pharmacy.

Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Terezínské listy

ISSN

0232-0452

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Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

53

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

7 - 31

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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