Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-417-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

M. D., Michael A. Grodin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Photos

About the Editor

List of Contributors

Credits

Index

Über Autor(innen)

M. D., Michael A. Grodin
Michael A. Grodin, M.D. is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he is also Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, and Senior Faculty at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and the Division of Religious and Theological Studies. As a practicing physician, Dr. Grodin has been named one of America’s Top Physicians and has received a national Humanism in Medicine Award for “compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients and their families.” An internationally recognized scholar on the Holocaust, Dr. Grodin has received a special citation from the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum for “profound contributions- through original and creative research – to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance.”

Michael A. Grodin, M.D. is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he is also Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, and Senior Faculty at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and the Division of Religious and Theological Studies. As a practicing physician, Dr. Grodin has been named one of America’s Top Physicians and has received a national Humanism in Medicine Award for “compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients and their families.” An internationally recognized scholar on the Holocaust, Dr. Grodin has received a special citation from the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum for “profound contributions- through original and creative research – to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance.”