Robert Levy or Robert Lévy was a French Jewish physician who served with the German army in World War I, for two years. During World War II, he served as the prisoner-doctor at Auschwitz.[1][2]
Levy was arrested on May 12, 1943, in Limoges and deported from Drancy on September 2, 1943, then deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and belonged to the concentration camp personnel conducting medical treatments at the Auschwitz II Birkenau death factory. He worked in the surgical block where the records were also kept. In his notes presented at the Nuremberg Trials (SS im Einsatz, 167/2),[3] Lévy mentioned "losing" 96% of his patients on several occasions. Every now and then, new selections among prisoners made to strip naked, were arranged on the block by head-doctor Friedrich Entress (see Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials). The injured – who were unable to return to work considerably quickly – were sent right away for the so-called "special handling" (Sonderbehandlung) at Block 20, which meant one thing: the phenol injection.[4]
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- Notes
- ^ Kim Christian Priemel, Alexa Stiller (2012), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography. Berghahn Books, p. 93. "The prisoner doctor, Robert Levy,[91] gave evidence about experimental operations in Auschwitz. He was a French citizen but had served with the German army in World War I for two years..." (see) "... most of the patients were very unhappy and psychologically broken by the serialization." (Google Books preview)
- ^ Endstation Auschwitz: Die Deportation deutscher und österreichischer jüdischer Kinder aus Frankreich. Ein Erinnerungsbuch - Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld - 2008 Page 87 " Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld. Robert Levy kam am 9. Januar 1928 in Edesheim zur Welt. Er wurde in St. Die im Departement Vosges in ..."
- ^ Gerhard Schoenberner (2004). Sources (Google Books). Fordham Univ Press. p. 284. ISBN 0823223906. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Robert Lay Lifton (2000). Selections in the Camp (Google Books). Basic Books. pp. 189–182. ISBN 0465049052. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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- Bibliography
- B&S (2010). "Auschwitz, camp de concentration nazi. 7.1.1.2. La vie quotidienne par Rober Lévy". Robert Lévy, Témoignages strasbourgeois. De l'Université aux camps de concentration, Les Belles Lettres, 1947. B&S Encyclopédie Editions. Retrieved 2013-05-28.