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Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.
Contents
Foreword
Joseph Polak
Preface
Michael A. Grodin & Allan Nadler
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael A. Grodin
PART I: HYGIENE AND DISEASE CONTAINMENT AS RESISTANCE
Chapter 1. The Epidemiological Status and Health Care Administration of the Jews Before and During the Holocaust
Jacob Jay Lindenthal
Chapter 2. Typhus Epidemic Containment as Resistance to Nazi Genocide
Naomi Baumslag and Barry Shmookler
Chapter 3. Delousing and Resistance During the Holocaust
Paul Weindling
PART II: ORGANIZED HEALTH CARE IN THE GHETTOS
Chapter 4. Courage Under Siege: Starvation, Disease and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto
Charles G. Roland
Chapter 5. Jewish Medical Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
Myron Winick
Chapter 6. Health Care in the Vilna Ghetto
Solon Beinfeld
Chapter 7. The Jewish Hospital in the Vilna Ghetto
Alexander Sedlis
Chapter 8. The Establishment of a Public Health Service in the Vilna Ghetto
Steven Sedlis
Chapter 9. Medicine in the Kovno Ghetto
Jack Brauns
Chapter 10. Medicine in the Shavli Ghetto - In Light of the Newly Discovered Diary of Dr. Aaron Pik
Miriam Offer
Chapter 11. The Nursing School in the Warsaw Ghetto
Aleksander Blum
Chapter 12. A Tribute to an Old-Fashioned Pharmacist
Lily Mazur Margules
PART III: MEDICINE IN THE CAMPS
Chapter 13. Jewish Medical Resistance in Block 10, Auschwitz
Claude Romney
Chapter 14. Greek Jews in Auschwitz: Doctors and Victims
Yitzchak Kerem
Chapter 15. The Kinderheim of Bergen-Belsen
Diane Plotkin
Chapter 16. Memoirs of Heroic Deeds by Jewish Medical Personnel in the Camps
Isak Arbus
Chapter 17. Felix Bachmann's Medical Memoir of Terezin Concentration Camp
Oliver B. Pollak
PART IV: WARTIME ACTIVITIES AND OTHER AREAS
Chapter 18. Doctors Saving Jews in Dniepropetrovsk During the Nazi Occupation
Alexander and Arkady Bielostotzk
Chapter 19. Crimean Doctors: Victims of Holocaust and Heroes of Resistance
Gitel Gubenko
Chapter 20. Jewish Medics in the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine
Ster Elisvatski
Afterword: The Ethical and Human Dimension of Jewish Medical Resistance During the Holocaust
Yulian Rafes
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About the Editor
List of Contributors
Credits
Index
