Health

The Israelite Hospital was opened in 1904 and offered 40 beds with another 15 beds in an attached old people's home. After 1933, regular work was no longer possible here. Many elderly Jews found shelter here during the National Socialist era. In 1942, they were all deported along with the doctors and staff.

After the end of the war, the building served as accommodation for Mainz citizens*. In the early 1970s, it was demolished.

The Jewish hospital was located in the Minsk ghetto between 1941 and 1943, coinciding with the period of origin of the ghetto, and is today a musical school. It was in this hospital that the resistance against the German Wehrmacht and SS developed, as the hospital was an epidemic hospital for prisoners of the ghetto. German soldiers rarely entered the hospital for fear of possible infection. The chief physician was Lev Kulik.