White coats in the ghetto : Jewish medicine in Poland during the Holocaust / Miriam Offer ; translated from the Hebrew by Naftali Greenwood

White Coats in the Ghetto narrates the struggle of the Jews to survive in the Warsaw ghetto while also preserving their humanity during the Holocaust. Based on a vast quantity of official and personal documents, it describes the elaborate medical system that the Jews established in the ghetto to cop...

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Autores principales:Offer, Miriam, 1960-
Otros Autores:Greenwood, Naftali (Übersetzer)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado:Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, [2020]
Colección:Yad Vashem publications
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Sumario:White Coats in the Ghetto narrates the struggle of the Jews to survive in the Warsaw ghetto while also preserving their humanity during the Holocaust. Based on a vast quantity of official and personal documents, it describes the elaborate medical system that the Jews established in the ghetto to cope with the lethal conditions imposed on them by the Nazis, and the tragic ethical dilemmas that the medical teams confronted under German occupation. -- Publisher description
Notas:First published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem, 2016
Descripción Física:702 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Faksimiles, Porträts 24 cm
ISBN:9789653086029