7. The Jewish Hospital in the Vilna Ghetto

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword. Three Kinds of Medical Resistance x
4. Preface xiv
5. Acknowledgments xviii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Hygiene and Disease Containment as Resistance
8. 1. The Epidemiological Status and Health-Care Administration of the Jews before and during the Holocaust 13
9. 2. Typhus Epidemic Containment as Resistance to Nazi Genocide 39
10. 3. Delousing and Resistance during the Holocaust 49
11. Part II. Organized Health Care in the Ghettos
12. 4. Courage under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto 59
13. 5. Jewish Medical Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto 93
14. 6. Health Care in the Vilna Ghetto 106
15. 7. The Jewish Hospital in the Vilna Ghetto 141
16. 8. The Establishment of a Public Health Service in the Vilna Ghetto 148
17. 9. Medicine in the Kovno Ghetto 155
18. 10. Medicine in the Shavli Ghetto: In Light of the Diary of Dr. Aaron Pik 164
19. 11. The Nursing School in the Warsaw Ghetto 173
20. 12. A Tribute to an Old-Fashioned Pharmacist 178
21. Part III. Medicine in the Camps
22. 13. Jewish Medical Resistance in Block 10, Auschwitz 185
23. 14. Greek Jews in Auschwitz: Doctors and Victims 197
24. 15. The Kinderheim of Bergen-Belsen 206
25. 16. Memoirs of Heroic Deeds by Jewish Medical Personnel in the Camps 219
26. 17. Felix Bachmann’s Medical Memoir of Terezín Concentration Camp 227
27. Part IV. Wartime Activities and Other Areas
28. 18. Doctors Saving Jews in Dniepropetrovsk during the Nazi Occupation 249
29. 19. Crimean Doctors: Victims of Holocaust and Heroes of Resistance 254
30. 20. Jewish Medics in the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine 261
31. Afterword. The Ethical and Human Dimension of Jewish Medical Resistance during the Holocaust 267
32. Photos 275
33. Notes on Contributors 285
34. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 290
35. Glossary 291
36. Selected Bibliography 293
37. Index 295