STATE ARCHIVES IN LODZ: Fund-- Jewish Community of Lodz
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314628?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=3&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314628
"Mentally Ill At 17 Wesola Street" [259 pages]
Page translated by Google Translate:
Some Names:
Scan 15-16
Beila FASS, 57:
mentally ill, epilepsy, arteriosclerosis, enlarged heart (signed by physician & dated 16 Oct 1917.)
Josef FASS: her husband.
Lived in Lodz/Baluty
Husband's request for poverty assistance; possible transfer/admission to Kochanowka psychiatric institution.
[Info. as translated by ChatGPT]
Scan18
Malstina MILLER:
unmarried; no parents
Scan 19
signed by Helena NEUMANOWA, curator of Asylum for the Mentally Ill.
Scan 21
Selection of women to serve as patrons/guardians/volunteers for mentally ill patients. This was a list of proposed women's names and their addresses.
Scans 22-25
Dr. Eliasberg
Rifka JAKUBOWICZ, 20:
Post-typhus symptoms of "mental disturbances"/ episodic, transient. Recommended placement in a general hospital. Headaches.
Summary (according to translation from Claude.ai [I am unsure of Claude's accuracy])--
Ryfka was taken into custody by the vice police on 26 Dec. 1917, for improper/indecent conduct and, citing a doctor's certificate describing "mental disturbances", pushed to have her institutionalized since her parents were unable to keep her at home.
A doctor's opinion pushed back--attributing her symptoms (headaches) to lingering effects of typhus, noting she was treatable as an outpatient, stating that commitment to a psychiatric hospital was unnecessary.
Note written by S.M. Bender, Ryfka's parent, acknowledging responsibility for providing her with personal items and payment for costs of confinement in asylum for the mentally ill at Wesola St., #17.
Scans 35, 37-39
Scan 37:
Cecylia vel Cyr_ FUKS:
Request by husband, Dawid FUKS (residing at Zgierska St, #43-45)--States wife, Cecylia, was mentally ill due to the war. He's in a state of poverty with three children. Prior to war, he was the manager of several buildings; now manager of only one, with no other income. Requested placement of wife in hospital for the mentally ill in Kochanowka.
No vacancies available in Kochanowka.
Doctor tried to visit Cecylia at home but doors were locked & no one was home.
Continue to rest of scans for additional names & other information. Use your favorite translators, as needed. I used: Google Translate, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. I can't guarantee that the translations are all accurate.
