[Adélaïde Hautval (1906-1988): An exemplary medical personality]

Abstract

Adélaïde Hautval (1906-1988), psychiatrist, was arrested in April 1942 having defended a Jewish family abused by German soldiers. She was imprisoned in Bourges and in several camps in France (Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Orléans, Romainville) before being deported as a "Friend of the Jews" at Auschwitz in the convoy of 23 January 1943, said 31,000 convoy with 229 other resistant women, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, Charlotte Delbo, Danielle Casanova. She refused to participate in the "medical" experience of Nazi doctors Clauberg, Schumann, Wirths and Mengele at Birkenau. She was then deported to Ravensbrück. During her deportation, she illustrated her dedication in the medical management of the deportees. She testified repeatedly on her experience of remote doctor. Hautval Adélaïde was the first French woman doctor named Righteous among the Nations in 1965.