Health care in the Vilna ghetto
TitleHealth care in the Vilna ghetto
Author
Call number940.5337/0070
Object number09175f
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherBerghahn Books
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp106-140
MaterialArticle
ISBN9781782384175
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish medical resistance in the Holocaust' pp106-140
Description
Vilna differed from the other disease-ridden ghettos - no major epidemics and virtually no deaths could be attributed to starvation. Within certain limits, the health services came close to being adequate for the needs of the inmate population. This was due in part to the 130 well-trained Jewish doctors