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Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book recently rediscovered on a library shelf

  • Written by Merry Fitzpatrick, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book recently rediscovered on a library shelfThe book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation.'Maladie de Famine," American Joint Distribution Committee

Exactly 80 years ago, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would...

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