Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust: The Anatomy of Survival in Auschwitz

✍ Scribed by Ross W. Halpin

Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 254
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Co-publication with Magnes Press

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Road to Auschwitz
Part II: Parallel Lives: Drs Sima Vaisman, Gisella Perl and Louis Micheels
Introduction
1. Dr Sima Vaisman
2. Louis Micheels
3. Dr Gisella Perl
Part III: Jewish Physicians and the Hospital System
Introduction
4. Hospitals and Infirmaries
5. Block 10
6. Daily Life
7. Ethical Dilemmas. Choiceless Choices and the Human Condition
Part IV: Survival
Introduction
8. Status
9. Personal Traits
10. Defence Mechanisms
Part V: Anatomy of Survival
Part VI: Evaluation of Sources
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendices
Index

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