‘It feels like a dream’ | Ewa Heller-Ekblad in the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital
Watch an exceptional conversation with Ewa Heller-Ekblad, granddaughter of Anna Braude-Heller, conducted during her visit to the former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital.
Ewa Heller was born in Warsaw in 1940 and (although she does not quite remember it) lived for some time on the premises of the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital with her parents and grandmother, Anna Braude-Heller.
After over 80 years, she returned to the former Hospital. The meeting with Ewa Heller-Ekblad was a beautiful and moving opportunity to talk about the history of her family, about memory and about the history of the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital.
There is no other person of such merit for the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital as Anna Braude-Hellerowa, who has been affiliated with the institution since 1914. It was due to her persistent efforts that the Hospital was reopened in 1930, where she had become physician-in-chief two years prior. She stayed with the patients and staff until the very end and died, most likely during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She was once described by the Hospital’s director Henryk Kroszczor as an incredibly honest and kind person, “with a huge amount of energy and some sort of inner flame radiating outwards”.
The visit of her granddaughter, Ewa Heller, was an honour. We very much hope to see her again at the opening of the Museum!