Adelaide hautval biography of william hill
Adelaide hautval biography of william hill
Adélaïde Hautval - The doctor who treated the Jews in ....
Adélaïde Hautval
French psychiatrist, Righteous Among the Nations (–)
Adélaïde Haas Hautval (1 January – 17 October )[1] was a French physician and psychiatrist who was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, where she provided medical care for Jewish prisoners and refused to cooperate with Nazi medical experimentation.
She was named Righteous Among the Nations in
Early life
Hautval was born in in Le Hohwald (part of modern Alsace, France).[1] She was the youngest of seven children born to a Protestant minister father.[2] She studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and trained in psychiatry at various psychiatric facilities in France and Switzerland.[3] In , she returned to Le Hohwald to work in a home for handicapped children, and by , when the German occupation of France began, she was working in a clinic in southwestern France.[1]
Arrest and imprisonment
After learning of her mother's death in Paris in