ОЗЕ/OZE The Jewish Health Protection Association's file / תיק ,אָזע, האגודה להגנת בריאות היהודים

🧾 Order and Receipt Documents of the "OZE" Association, Riga 1940

These sources document the activities of the "OZE" Association (Society for the Protection of Jewish Health) in Riga, Latvia, during the 1920s and 1940s. The documents include receipts and order forms for advertisements in a medical calendar from 1940, listing business names and local addresses. Alongside them are historical photographs of the organization’s leadership, the workers’ committee, and the medical staff of the "Bikur Holim" hospital. The images are accompanied by captions in Yiddish and Hebrew identifying the central figures and the communal institutions of the period. This collection serves as testimony to the life of the Jewish community and to the organized healthcare system that operated in Latvia before the Holocaust. Overall, the materials combine bureaucratic-economic aspects with visual documentation of Jewish professional leadership.

• Protection of Jewish public health: As indicated by its official name appearing on its documents, its central goal was the protection of health (O23-1f, O23-2f).
• Publishing and health education: The association was engaged in producing and publishing a Health Calendar (veselības kalendārs) for the year 1940 (O23-1f, O23-2f).
• Commercial and advertising activity: As part of publishing the calendar, the association managed a system of advertising orders (sludinājumu) from various companies and factories (O23-1f, O23-2f). Among the companies that ordered advertisements were the firm L. Ditrich from Grevikes Street 8 and the firm A. Serensen from Trlat Street 75 (O23-1f, O23-2f).
• Institutional and organizational management: The association was managed by a committee composed of professionals, mainly physicians, as well as engineers and lawyers (O23-3f). According to the Yiddish caption, the board members included Dr. Kotler, Eng. M. Taubin, Dr. Dubinsky, Dr. Eliasberg, Mrs. M. Markovitz, Dr. Maglif, K. Groys, M. Kitai, Adv. Yuvelson, Dr. Z. Gordin, Dr. Latzki, and Dr. Rachel Cohen (O23-3f).
• Central office management: The association operated an office in Riga located at Latgales iela 68 (O23-1f, O23-2f).

List of Sources

• O23-1f : Advertising order document (No. 451) for the OZE Association Health Calendar for the year 1940, including the name of the association and its address in Riga.
• O23-2f : Advertising order document (No. 642) from the firm A. Serensen for the OZE Association Health Calendar.
• O23-3f : File of photographs including the photograph of the leadership of the "OZE" Association and the list of committee members in Yiddish and Hebrew.

O23-1f

O23-2f

O23-3f

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