Tag #111097 - Interview #79527 (Maria Ziemna)

I took a medical course then. It was organized by doctors from the Jewish hospital in Kazimierz [15]. There’s still a hospital there in the same place today. It’s not called ‘Jewish hospital’ anymore, naturally. [The pre-war Jewish Hospital on Skawinska Street, today the hospital of the Collegium Medicum of Jagiellonian University]. I remember the doctor told us nobody got sick from being cold, that it’s germs. Then we had practice in the hospital, they told us to wash some men beaten up by Germans. I went together with a friend, two of us, because we were afraid. I didn’t know what a naked man looked like, and we were ashamed. It was an old, dirty Jew that we washed. The course lasted two or three months. You simply had to have some qualifications. Anything.