Jewish medical resistance in the ghettos and camps during the holocaust

This presentation (based on a recently completed book) will provide a historical example of how Jewish Physicians practiced medicine under the most severe conditions in the Ghettos and Camps During the Holocaust.. Faced with epidemic infectious disease, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water and safe sewage, physicians did the best to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect of buildings and latrines, enact quarantine and triage. Physicians established an underground Medical School in the Warsaw Ghetto and studied the impacts of chronic starvation. Questions arose concerning suicide, abortion and euthanasia. Many physicians gave their life to help fellow prisoners. The remarkable story of the resilience of these physicians has yet to be adequately documented