us-005578-irn1001426
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title: War Crimes Trials: Medical Case
note: Trial transcripts available in the departmental files. Photographs available in the USHMM Photo Reference Collection.
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scope and content: (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. SILENT: Judges enter courtroom. An unidentified woman who was a victim of the Ravensbrueck experiments on the stand, questioned by Dr. Alexander about the wound received at Ravensbrueck. She walks to dock and points out the defendants Gebhardt, Oberhauser, and Fischer. MLSs, defendants in dock. 10:13:02 SOUND: Polish survivor Jadwiga Dzido on the stand. Dr. Leo Alexander identifies the X-ray of Dzigo's leg and explains the nature of the medical experiment performed on her at Ravensbrueck concentration camp. Dr. Alexander talks about the marked atrophy of her leg and foot, he points to a scar on her leg.
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biographical history: Jadwiga Dzido [later Hassa] is the daughter of Katarzyna and Jozef. A Polish Catholic, she was born in Suchowola on January 26, 1918 but was raised in Lukow. Her father was killed during World War I so Katarzyna supported herself and Jadwiga by working for the pharmacist, Teodozjusz Nowinski. Teodozjusz, who had no children of his own, took a special interest in Jadwiga and encouraged her to pursue higher education. In September 1938, Jadwiga began her study of pharmacology at the University of Warsaw. She returned home on June 24 1938 to work at Mr. Nowinski's pharmacy during her summer vacation. Before she could return to Warsaw for the new term, World War II broke out. Rather than return to the university, Jadwiga remained in Lukow working at the pharmacy. She joined the ZWZ, the youth organization associated with the Polish Home Army, and assisted the underground by administering first aid, obtaining medications, and distributing illegal publications. On March 28, 1941, the Gestapo arrested Jadwiga and brought her to the prison in Radzyn. Though she was never told the specific charges against her, the Gestapo suspected that she had been supplying the underground with poisons to use in killing Germans. The Gestapo later transferred her to their prison in the dungeon of the Lublin castle where she was beaten and tortured in order to get the names of other members of the underground. Jadwiga never released any information, and after six weeks, on September 21, 1941, the Gestapo transported her to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. As a Polish political prisoner, she had to wear a red triangle marked with the letter P and was given the prisoner number 7860. Jadwiga had to perform hard physical labor transporting construction materials and was also sent to work in the camp's shoe factory making straw inserts and sewing together strips of rabbit fur for German soldiers. However, her greatest suffering came at the hands of Nazi doctors who performed torturous medical…
date: 12/20/1946
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-12-31
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has or had some members with language: eng
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-01-01