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World War I Correspondence
US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F033 · File · 1919-01 - 1919-12
Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from France and Germany.

Topics include discussion on daily life of those serving, travel throughout Europe, practicing medicine during and after battle, and reactions to Armistice.

One major thread of correspondence includes a request from Dr. Joseph Horowitz, who, stationed in Germany with little to do after the Armistice, asks Louis J. Frank to coordinate with Congressman Isaac Siegel to help him return to work at Beth Israel Hospital.

World War I Correspondence
US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F031 · File · 1917-1919 (bulk 1917)
Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from "somewhere in France," but also from Germany and Fort Benjamin, Indiana in the U.S.

Topics include the staffing of Beth Israel, future needs of military patients, the status of the Beth Israel Hospital building (future Dazian Pavilion), and the daily life of those serving. At least one letter makes reference to the Mount Sinai Hospital Unit.

World War I Correspondence
US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F032 · File · 1918 - 1919-01-11
Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from "somewhere in France," but also from Germany and Fort Benjamin, Indiana in the U.S.

Topics include discussion on daily life for those serving in the war, Russia's role in the war, the status of the new Beth Israel hospital building (future Dazian Pavilion), medical staff shortages at Beth Israel and in the United States, the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, discussions of wartime surgery, discussions of x-ray training for military doctors, the status of various Beth Israel doctors at home and abroad, and global and local politics, particularly related to Congressman Isaac Siegel. Two postcards were also sent from Leo B. Meyer from Chartreuse de Vauclaire, a monastery turned military hospital in France. Letters also make various references to the Mount Sinai Hospital unit.

US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F032.I027 · Item · 1918-10-31
Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

Topics include status of Beth Israel doctors following the end of World War I, discussion of progress on the new hospital building at Livingston Place (the future Dazian Pavilion), staffing shortages at the hospital, and the ongoing Influenza Epidemic of 1918.

Frank, Louis J.