[The hospitalization of Jews in mental hospitals under Vichy in the department of the Seine]

Hist Sci Med. 2008 Oct-Dec;42(4):349-58.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The author presents the state of his research about a question not very studied till now in a French départment whose specificities have to be considered. The studying of some fifty medical records and some unpublished documents allows to point out how people persecuted by racial laws have been set in psychiatric hospitals and protected. As for their goods it seems that the system intending to protect psychiatric in-patients during their stay at the hospital has been turned away and used to despoil the patents "claimed or alleged Jews".

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • France
  • History, 20th Century
  • Hospitalization*
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric / history*
  • Humans
  • Jews / history*
  • Medical Records
  • World War II*