Yad Vashem Publications

Arkadi Zeltser

Adam Rutkowski

Erich Haberer

Armin Nolzen

David Engel

Klaus-Peter Friedrich

Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott

This is a unique account of the Holocaust and its aftermath by a Jewish Yugoslav army chaplain, based on his wartime diary. The author, PhD, rabbi and Army officer in World War II, spent four years in Germany among Yugoslavian Jewish officers who were prisoners of war. With distinct literary skill, he paints a broad scene of those days and delineates fine-tooled descriptions of the atmosphere engulfing the captive Jewish officers, Bergen-Belsen after the liberation and the dreams and struggles of the camp survivors.

Sara Kadosh

Michael Berenbaum

Daniel Uziel

Nathan Eck

Avraham Barkai

Omer Bartov

Andrew Apostolou

Oded Heilbronner

Ruth Minsky Sender

Miriam Offer

A last few words to honor you, the Jewish doctors. What canI tell you, my beloved colleagues and companions in misery?  You are a part of all of us. Slavery, hunger, deportation, thosedeath figures in our ghetto were also your legacy. And you byyour work could give the henchman the answer Non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die. (Dr. Israel Milejkowski, Director, Judenrat Health Department in the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1942)

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. 

Kinga Frojimovics

Stephan Lehnstaedt

Dan Michman

Dan Michman

Moshe Kahanowitz

Edited by Jean Ancel

Editor: Jean Ancel | Revised and annotated by Leon Volovici and Miriam Caloianu