Hemstreet Deborah E-S, Weisz George M
English Communications Coordinator, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Editorial Assistant, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, Haifa, Israel.
Rambam Maimonides Med J. 2023 Jul 31;14(3):e0018. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10505.
Meir Dvorjetski was a Holocaust survivor, teacher, and historian. He is best remembered for his descriptions of the medicine practiced by the Nazis during World War II, as well as the diseases, disorders, syndromes, and deaths resulting from such practice-particularly, though not solely, on the Jewish race. Dvorjetski's contributions to Holocaust research at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, his underground partisan work, his contributions to society, and his testimony at the Eichmann trial have all been well documented. However, his earlier years-including his survival of the Holocaust, and his less-known medical achievements and contributions to historical records regarding the Holocaust-have not been covered as thoroughly. These latter items are the focus of this paper, with a closing commentary on the relevance of his work for the 21st century.
迈尔·德沃耶茨基是一名大屠杀幸存者、教师和历史学家。他最为人铭记的是对纳粹在二战期间实施的医学行为的描述,以及这种行为导致的疾病、紊乱、综合征和死亡——尤其是对犹太种族造成的影响,不过并不局限于此。德沃耶茨基在以色列巴伊兰大学对大屠杀研究的贡献、他的地下游击队员工作、他对社会的贡献以及他在艾希曼审判中的证词都有详尽的记录。然而,他的早年经历——包括他在大屠杀中的幸存,以及他鲜为人知的医学成就和对大屠杀历史记录的贡献——并未得到如此全面的报道。本文将聚焦于这些后期内容,并对他的作品与21世纪的相关性进行结语评论。