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The Jewish Hospital was founded in 1872 by Isaac Zabłudowski. It was located in the building given to the Jewish community in 1862.

June 23, 1921. On that day, at 15 Warszawska Street in Białystok, "a solemn consecration and opening of the Jewish Hospital" took place, as the contemporary newspapers wrote. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the rabbinate, the municipal authorities, and the vice-president of the City Council, Witold Łaszewski.

In reality, the Jewish hospital on the Warszawka Street had already existed since a house and a square located there had been given to the Jewish community by Isaac Zabłudowski in 1862. Ten years later, the followers of Moses built a modern, two-story building in its place. The building became a hospital, officially called "The Jewish Hospital" which, at that time, could admit up to 48 patients (48 beds). That number was increased to 86 in 1882, when, after a donation of one Wołkowycki, a new wing was added to the building. Before the end of the 19th century, the Hospital had separate rooms for surgical treatment and internal medicine. However, its real fame came during the interwar period. After the First World War, both Białystok and the hospital began their "second" life - a certain proof of that was its ceremonial opening in 1921. Before the foundation of the hospital in Choroszcz, the Jewish Hospital also took care of patients with mental health problems, whose number in Białystok, and throughout Poland, had increased after the First World War. It was also said that some liver surgeries were performed only in two places in the world: in this hospital and in Japan, and that the hospital's high level of quality of the treatments surprised the German doctors who occupied it during the war. The Second World War, unfortunately, left no trace of the well-trained hospital staff.

A special role in protecting the health of the community of the region plays the Provincial Integrated Hospital. The foundation and the development of the hospital in associated with the organization and the advancement of surgery, caused by the shortage of places providing such services in the interwar period. In 1931, the City Hospital, also called St Roch's, was built and opened; with multiple wards, it could admit up to 240 patients, including 60 beds of the surgical ward. professor Konrad Fiedorowicz of the Surgical Clinic of the Astrakhan State University became the director of the hospital and the head of said surgical ward. To this day, the development and strengthening of the surgery in Białystok is accredited to him.

The plaque is currently located in the Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy at the Medical University of Białystok (Branicki Palace).

Information: Grażyna Rogala

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