german extermination of Psychiatric patients in poland 1939-1945

 
 

Source: Jaroszewski, Zdzislaw ed. Zaglada psychicznie chorych w Polsce 1939 -1945. [Extermination of the Mental Hospital Patients in Poland 1939-1945]. PWN, Warszawa 1993. Publication of the Polskie Towarzystwo Psychiatryczne [Polish Psychiatry Society] and Komisja Naukowa Historii Psychiatrii Polskiej [Scientific Commission of the Polish Psychiatry History].
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No. of
Hospital Name, Location
Cat.*
Dates
Killed
Total**
Chelm Lubelski D Jan. 12, 1940 441 441
Choroszcz (Bialystok province) D Aug. 1941 564 564
Dziekanka, Gniezno D Dec. 7, 1939 – Jan. 12, 1940 1,043  
  D Jul. 3-25, 1941 158 1,201
Dziekanka, Poznan P 1939 – 1945 879 879
Gostynin (Plock province) D Feb. 3 – Jun. 3, 1940 48  
  D Jun. 9, 1941 59 107
Kobierzyn (Krakow province) D Jun. 23, 1942 566 566
Kocborowo (Chojnice) P Oct-Nov 1939 216 216
Kocborowo (Stargard Gdanski) D Sep. 22, 1939 – Jan. 4, 1940 1,692  
  D Jul. 22, 1941 510  
  D 1942-1944 360 2,562
Kochanowka (Lodz province) D Mar. 13-27, 1940 540  
  P Jul. 1941 150 690
Koscian (Leszno province) D Jan. 15 & Jan. 22, 1940 532  
  P Feb-Mar. 1940 2,750 3,282
Lubliniec (Czestochowa province) D Aug. 1942, Nov. 1944 194 194
Lodz Ghetto D Mar. 1940, Jul. 29, 1941,
Sep. 1, 1942, Apr-Dec 1942

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284
Owinska (Poznan province) P Oct.-Nov. 1939 1,000 1,000
Poznan Clinic D Nov. 28, 1939 27 27
Rybnik (Katowice province) E 1940-1945 2,000 2,000
Swiece nad Wisla (Bydgoszc prov.) P Oct. 1939 1,068 1,068
Tworki (Warsaw province) D Jun. 17-18, 1941 81 81
St. John Hospital, Warsaw E Aug.-Oct. 1944 150 150
Warta (Sieradz province) D Apr. 2-4, 1940 499  
  D Jun. 16, 1941 82 581
Wilno E 1941 150 150
Zofiowka, Otwock (Warsaw prov.) P Aug. 19, 1942 110 110
  Total** 16,153  

* Categories: D – fully documented as of 1990, P – partially documented, E – estimates.
** Total numbers exclude victims of indirect extermination and purposeful restrictions of food rationing in all hospitals and the patients of Drewnica and Kulparkow hospitals. The number of deaths caused by malnutrition is estimated at not less than 10,000 patients.