Jeish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust [Hardcover]

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.

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