Accreditation not Nostrified

Jewish identity card (Ausweis) in German and Polish, issued to Marian-Mojzesz Jacobi by the Warsaw District Chamber of Health, General Government. The card is stamped with the word 'Jude' (Jew) and Stars of David. It states that his medical accreditation has not been ‘nostrified' (recognised), Warsaw, 1941.

Mojzesz Chaim Jacobi (Marian Jacobi) was born 29 September 1913 in Lomza, Poland. His family was forced to relocate to the Warsaw ghetto. From September 1940 to October 1940, Marian was employed as a doctor in a Belzec camp (originally a forced labour camp that was dissolved to become an extermination camp). Following the camp's dissolution, he was referred to the Employment Office in Warsaw to obtain further work. From July to September 1941 he was employed in the Krankenhaus Czyste (Czyste hospital, Warsaw). In July 1942 he was ordered to serve in the ‘Ambulatorium’ (Outpatients Unit) at the "Umschlagplatz" (the collection point for deportation).

Marian, his wife Erna and her mother escaped to the ‘Aryan’ side just before the Ghetto Uprising of April 1943. Throughout this time, he was a member of the Polish underground, receiving orders and supplies from the Polish government-in-exile in London. He fought with the Polish Army on the Eastern Front from September 1944 until August 1945. Post-war, he received numerous awards and decorations for the defence of Warsaw and in the war against the Nazis.