Exhibition- Righteous Among the Nations-Adelaide Hautval
Adelaide Hautval was a French psychiatrist. During World War II she requested a passage to the German occupied Paris, to attend her mother’s funeral, but she was denied. She decided to take the risk and cross the border illegally, but she was arrested by the German police and sent to prison in Bourges. There she was exposed to the horrible treatment of Jewish people, she protested against the treatment of Jews in the occupied territories and as a result was sent to the Death camp Auschwitz Birkenau.
Adelaide was nicknamed in the camp ‘the saint’, she used her medical experience to take care of the prisoners who battled with the typhus disease. Later Adelaide was appointed as a doctor in the camp, she used her new position to hide the information about the Jewish patients from the Nazis, a deed which saved many lives. During the war Adelaide was transferred between camps, she fought with all her might to save as many people as she could.
In 1965 the Yad Vasem Institute knowledge Adelaide Hautval as Righteous Among the Nations.
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