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July 21, 2022
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Hunger Disease in Southern France Internment Camps during World War II: The Pioneering Studies of Dr. Joseph Weill

Publicated to:ISRAEL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 24 (7): 429-432 - 2022-07-01 24(7), DOI:

Authors: Ohry A; González-López E

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Reuth Med & Rehabil Ctr, Dept Rehabil Med, Tel Aviv, Israel - Author
Tel Aviv Univ, Fac Med, Dept Rehabil Med, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Med, Madrid, Spain - Author
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dr. Joseph Weill was a French Jewish doctor who made significant contributions to the knowledge of hunger disease in the refugee camps in southern France during World War II. He was involved with the clandestine network of escape routes for Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France to Switzerland. Take home messages • During the Holocaust, in the ghettoes and death camps, a few research projects, mainly on hunger and infectious diseases, were performed by Jewish physicians and scientists • Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners were incarcerated within the notorious system of internment camps in southern France • Dr. Joseph Weill (1902-1988), a French Jewish physician and a distinguished member of the Résistance managed to enter the internment camps and medically assist the inmates in addition to performing systematic research and follow-up of those who presented with hunger disease.

Keywords

holocausthunger diseasejoseph weillworld war iiChildConcentration campsFrench internment campsHistory, 20th centuryHolocaustHumansHungerJewsMaleWorld war ii

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ISRAEL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, and although the journal is classified in the quartile Q3 (Agencia WoS (JCR)), its regional focus and specialization in Medicine, General & Internal, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Israel.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (GONZALEZ LOPEZ, ESTEBAN).