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Hautval, Adelaide (1906–1988)
French physician who, as an Auschwitz prisoner, refused to participate in medical experiments on Jewish prisoners. Name variations: Haidi Hautval.
Adelaide hautval biography of martin luther
Born in Hohwald im Elsass, Germany (now Le Hohwald, Alsace, France), on January 1, 1906; died on October 17, 1988; daughter of a Protestant pastor.
Israel's Yad Vashem recognized her as a "Righteous Among the Nations" (April 1965).
Adelaide Hautval was born in 1906 into the family of a Protestant pastor in Alsace when that province was part of the German Reich.
Known to her friends as Haidi, she received a medical degree in psychiatry from the University of Strasbourg
and then returned in 1938 to her village of Le Hohwald to help in the management of a home for handicapped children.
She had found employment in a clinic in southwestern France when Nazi Germany defeated and occupied France in mid-1940. In April 1942, after receiving word that her mother was mortally ill, she requested travel permits