Doktor z Osvětimi - Lékař, který těm, co přežili peklo vyhlazovacího tábora, vrátil zdraví, důstojnost a víru v člověka – Nowak Szymon (2020)

January 1945. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, 4,800 prisoners remained, unable to make the harrowing death march on their own. The gas chambers and crematoria had been blown up, and the Soviet troops penetrated the depths of the Nazi defenses so quickly that the camp guards could not kill the surviving prisoners... A few days after the liberation of the concentration camp, Dr. Józef Bellert arrives with a group of more than thirty doctors and nurses from Kraków. For eight months, they operated what was probably the largest field hospital of World War II, practically on the fly, in the ruins of the Auschwitz camp. All of this during the immediate aftermath of liberation, when the ashes of the crematoria were still smoldering. Prisoners sentenced to death were given a chance at a new life. Thanks to Bellert and his colleagues, who provided medical assistance regardless of the lack of water and food, hygiene supplies, bandages, and medicines. Their emaciated patients weighed an average of 25-30 kg. They suffered from typhus, fevers, tuberculosis, diarrhea, swelling, and bedsores. They were afraid of people in white coats with syringes, as they associated them with the phenol injections used by the SS to kill sick prisoners. One had to be truly strong to be able to help in these...