Froukje Carolina de Leeuw (1916-2002), a female prisoner doctor’s view of Block 10 in Auschwitz Hans-Joachim Lang
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total of four female prisoner doctors lived and worked in Block 10, an experimental Block in the main camp of Auschwitz (Stammlager).1 The physicians Dr. Alina Brewda, Dr. Adeleide Hautval, and Dr. Dorita Kleinowa2
(after the war, when married again, with the surname ‘Lorska’) all became wellknown. Their post-war notoreity primarily came as a result of their serving as trial witnesses in London. Their testimony helped bring public attention to the caring
About the author: Hans-Joachim Lang, PhD, is a professor at the Universität Tübingen, Germany. Born in 1951, he received an MA (1976) and PhD (1980) from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. An honorary professor since 2013, he conducts research on the Shoah, culture of remembrance, and history of democracy. He is one of the founding members of the Tübingenbased research team “University under National Socialism” (2002). Prof. Lang is the author of the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern (The Names of the Numbers, 2004). Since 2016 he is a member of an international historical commission at the Université de Strasbourg, researching the history of the Faculty of Medicine at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg.
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For more on the topic see: Hans-Joachim Lang, Kobiety z bloku 10. Eksperymenty medyczne w Auschwitz. Warszawa: Marginesy, 2018.
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After the war, Dr. Kleinowa took on the married surname Lorska.
