Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust write by Ross W. Halpin. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first attempt to explain how Jewish doctors survived extreme adversity in Auschwitz where death could occur at any moment. The ordinary Jewish slave labourer survived an average of fifteen weeks. Ross Halpin discovers that Jewish doctors survived an average of twenty months, many under the same horrendous conditions as ordinary prisoners. Despite their status as privileged prisoners Jewish doctors starved, froze, were beaten to death and executed. Many Holocaust survivors attest that luck, God and miracles were their saviors. The author suggests that surviving Auschwitz was far more complex. Interweaving the stories of Jewish doctors before and during the Holocaust Halpin develops a model that explains the anatomy of survival. According to his model the genesis of survival of extreme adversity is the will to live which must be accompanied by the necessities of life, specific personal traits and defence mechanisms. For survival all four must co-exist.
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust write by Michael A. Grodin, M.D.. This book was released on 2014-09-01. Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Essence of Survival
The Essence of Survival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essence of Survival write by Ross Halpin. This book was released on 2014. The Essence of Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narative version of Ross Halpin's PHD Thesis. Based on a series of interviews with Jewish doctors who survived Auschwitz. Postulates reasons for their survival beyond other inmates.
Murderous Medicine
Murderous Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murderous Medicine write by Naomi Baumslag. This book was released on 2005. Murderous Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz write by Gisella Perl. This book was released on 2019-02-28. I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as in-depth representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl’s writing is both graphic in its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of the memoir’s major historical contributions is Perl’s account of being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion, topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts. After decades out of print, this new edition will ensure the crucial place of Perl’s testimony on Holocaust memory and education.
