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dc.contributor.authorDobrowolska, B.
dc.contributor.authorHoch, S.
dc.contributor.authorJabkowska-Sochanska, A.
dc.contributor.authorBenedict, S.
dc.contributor.authorShields, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:31:58Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:31:58Z
dc.date.created2012-03-14T20:00:56Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationDobrowolska, Barbara and Hoch, Stefania and Jabkowska-Sochanska, Aniela and Benedict, Susan and Shields, Linda. 2011. Wanda Ossowska (1912-2001) and Stanislawa Leszczynska (1896-1974): Polish nurses working under Nazi Occupation. Journal of Medical Biography. 19: pp. 168-170.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32625
dc.identifier.doi10.1258/jmb.2011.011007
dc.description.abstract

Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and World War II began on 3 September. Polish nurses have their place in this difficult history. In the first months of occupation, nurses focused on caring for wounded soldiers. In order to protect them from prisoner-of-war camps and execution, nurses sought safe havens for the wounded in private homes and transported them there. After their regular jobs, the nurses visited them, changed their dressings and provided them with civilian clothes so that soldiers could eventually escape. This paper describes the work of two of these nurses, Wanda Ossowska and Stanisława Leszczynska. The first three authors (BD, SH, AJS) were nurses in Poland at that time and they present some of the information in this paper as primary source data.

dc.publisherRoyal Society of Medicine
dc.titleWanda Ossowska (1912-2001) and Stanislawa Leszczynska (1896-1974): Polish nurses working under Nazi Occupation
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume19
dcterms.source.startPage168
dcterms.source.endPage170
dcterms.source.issn0967-7720
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Medical Biography
curtin.departmentSchool of Nursing and Midwifery
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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