Medical Review Auschwitz

Publishing so-far unavailable early research on medicine and the Holocaust and facilitating new studies through conferences and publications.

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Pharmacist and Auschwitz survivor J. Sikorski presents the biography of N. Włodarski, MD, a prisoner-doctor in #Auschwitz Block 21 nicknamed “Prontosil” by fellow inmates after what was at that time considered a miracle drug.
https://t.co/0XNQp4riY3

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A hero of the resistance movement and prisoner-doctor in Auschwitz, D. Lorska, MD, presents a first-hand account of her confinement in the camp as seen by a physician. @AuschwitzMuseum
https://t.co/sRUPsRGt85

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J. Żegleń, MD���a physician, social activist, and survivor of a number of concentration camps (#Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, and Dachau) recollects his experiences as a prisoner-doctor in Gross-Rosen. @GrossRosen
https://t.co/STZjJvMveT

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Cardiologist and Neuengamme survivor S. Sterkowicz, MD, PhD, looks into the hunger disease in Nazi concentration camps, combining the perspectives of physician and an eye-witness of its terrible course. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/IE75v9cw7l

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Historian of medicine R. Zabłotniak, MD, PhD, overviews the clandestine system of medical education organised by the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Poland by people who risked their lives to train the next generation of physicians. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/Va6MksKI4T

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D. Lorska, MD, a hero of the Auschwitz resistance movemoent, presents a first-hand account of the activities of criminals such as Clauberg and controversial figures such as Dering in the notorious Block 10 in Auschwitz.@AuschwitzMuseum
https://t.co/hD49ocLuGP

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Physician and #Auschwitz survivor S. Kłodziński, MD, presents the stories of the medical prisoners of the infamous Nazi German Montelupich jail in Kraków—and the heroes and villains of its history. #WW2
https://t.co/ohAm5fSIHm

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Neurologist and historian of Medicine S. Kasperek, MD, PhD, presents an in-depth and well documented quantitative and qualitative analysis of the criminal forced sterilisation in parts of Nazi-occupied Poland during #WW2.
https://t.co/n2i30adaPm

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Pulmonologist and Auschwitz survivor S. Kłodziński, MD, examines the criminal sterilization procedures conducted by Horst Schumann on female and male prisoners in #Auschwitz in one of the earliest studies on this subject. #WW2
https://t.co/WbRLqO9s21

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J. Mruk, MD, presents his harrowing experiences of being a prisoners’ doctor in Liban, a little-known Nazi German forced labour camp for underage Poles located in the immediate vicinity of Kraków, Poland. #WW2
https://t.co/Jyq4SEcbFi

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TB specialist and resistance movement member J. Misiewicz, MD, presents her diary entries from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, providing an invaluable medical perspective on one of the bloodiest armed clashes and humanitarian crises of the #WW2.
https://t.co/EAUSzdMW2C

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Psychiatrist and extreme medicine specialist Z.J. Ryn, PhD, and #Auschwitz survivor S. Kłodziński, MD, look into the concentration camp prisoners’ strategies for countering life-threatening hunger, based on extensive survivors’ testimonies. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/uOEN7vHKUM

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Psychiatrist and #medicine in extreme conditions specialist Z.J. Ryn, PhD, and physician survivor S. Kłodziński, MD, present a comprehensive behavioural study of hunger in Hitler’s concentration camps, drawing on extensive survivors’ testimonies. #WW2
https://t.co/RYpQkEhCCJ

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#Auschwitz prisoner-doctor and survivor C. Głowacki analyses the criminal sterilisation procedures of Nazi physician Carl Clauberg on the basis of extant documentation, in a pioneering article later cited by scholars such as H.J. Lang and K.W. Ruyter.
https://t.co/Ddls1zRkdP

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Historian of medicine, former prisoner doctor, and Neuengamme survivor S. Sterkowicz, MD, PhD, analyzes the psychological and moral effects of extreme hunger based on his own camp experience. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/VWT6o2SOmS

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S. Jagielski, MD, a survivor of 6 concentration camps, including #Auschwitz, examines the healing potential of purely psychological help prisoner doctors used to prolong the life of other inmates while conventional medical means were unavailable. #WW2
https://t.co/a7s2gaiz0D

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Physician and Dachau survivor F. Blaha presents the results of his study into the connections between concentration camp confinement and development of atherosclerosis. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/lCY1t30ct7

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#Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor and physician A. Makowski, MD, walks the reader through a staggering account on the state of malnourishment of concentration camp prisoners as studied by doctor and #WW2 veteran Cpt. H. H. Ingling, MD.
https://t.co/1sC5o1IFcY

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R. Szuszkiewicz, MD, dentist and #Auschwitz survivor, presents an eye-witness account of the camp resistance movement activities in the dentist clinic in Auschwitz, as well as on the criminal actions undertaken by the Nazis in the clinic. #WW2 #medicine
https://t.co/J3eITbFGkw

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Dentist and #Asuchwitz survivor J. Krzywicki, MD, PhD, presents a first-hand account of the ways in which jaw injuries were treated in the inhuman conditions of the Auschwitz concentration camp. #WW2 #History
https://t.co/TCauz9zDPk