Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital was a Jewish medical facility operating from 1878 to 1942 in Warsaw at 51 Śliska Street/ 60 Sienna Street.
In 1873 two families: Majer and Chaja Bersohn and their daughter Paulina Bauman together with her husband Salomon bought the land for the construction of the hospital.
[1] During the First World War, the financial situation of the hospital changed dramatically, due to the fact that the testamentary and founding provisions were devalued.
The situation changed after numerous interventions of doctor Anna Braude-Heller, thanks to whom hospital buildings that belonged to the Bersohn and Bauman Foundation Board were taken over by the Society of Friends of Children in 1930.
Since February 1942, the staff of the hospital have been taking part in scientific research on hunger disease in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Postmortem examinations of starved to death patients were carried out in a shed at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street, where they waited for burial in mass graves.
Adina Blady-Szwajger gave a group of children morphine so that they could die in the hospital in peace, avoiding the suffering of displacement.
After the end of the war, in 1946-1950, after reconstruction, the hospital buildings housed the headquarters and apartments of employees of the Central Committee of Polish Jews.
[8] In 2017, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage asked the voivodship's government to lease the former hospital for 30 years and establish the Warsaw Ghetto Museum there.