The Révész Street Military Hospital
Budapest, 13th district, 27-31 Révész Street.
13th district, 27-31 Révész Street. It was a military hospital during World War One, now it is an apartment building.
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This is what it looks like today
Source:
The detailed history of Semmelweiss University https://semmelweis.hu/az-egyetemrol/az-egyetem-tortenete/a-semmelweis-egyetem-tortenete/
13th district, 27-31 Révész Street. It was a military hospital during World War One, now it is an apartment building.
Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:R%C3%A9v%C3%A9sz_street_27-31,_Budapest#/media/File:Budapest_Riverloft.JPG
This is what it looks like today
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:R%C3%A9v%C3%A9sz_street_27-31,_Budapest#/media/File:Budapest_Riverloft.JPG
THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PLACE
In the temporarily furnished Révész Street Hospital, Ranschburg operated on people wounded in the war (he directed the operations of people with peripheral nerve injuries) between December 1914 and 1918 as head of the department. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in April 1919 he was instructed by the People’s Commissariat of Work and Welfare to work as the head of the 1st Neurology Department of the Révész Street Hospital, although he had resigned in December 1918.
During the Jewish hostage-taking operation of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, he was arrested without charges, arguing that he had treated officers of Horthy’s army in his surgery. He was set free, but he was threatened with arrest again, of which he was warned by medical doctor Baron Korányi’s family, who helped him hide. Consequently, Ranschburg was hiding for several weeks in Baron Frigyes Korányi’s villa on Istenhegyi Road. Later the professor got a medal for tending to those injured in the war, and his eldest son Endre was awarded a medal for a successful war operation and survived World War 1.
THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE
The building at the corner of Révész and Népfürdő Streets used to be a gas plant. It was built in 1914 as a storage building of the “Budapest Gas Works, Gas Storage Establishment Central Workshop and Warehouse.” During World War One, the establishment was used as a war hospital, then as the Invalids Office, and later as a university building. It was taken back into the ownership of the Gas Works in 1920. Now it is an apartment building.
Sources
Ranschburg, Ágnes Hildegard (November 29, 2014). Történelmi üvegcserepek. Ranschburg rabbi léptei nyomán. Liget Műhely. https://ligetmuhely.com/liget/tortenelmi-uvegcserepek/ https://ligetmuhely.com/liget/tortenelmi-uvegcserepek/
Ranschburg Endre: Családtörténeti visszaemlékezések, 1964.
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