If you want to get some idea, just look at the subtitle of her book: Medicine and Crimes Against Humanity: The Refusal of a Doctor, Deported to Auschwitz, to Participate in Medical Experiments. Take it, if you want”—Lélia offered me the book—“but, if I were you, I’d keep a wastebasket handy nearby because I promise you, it’ll make you want to throw up . . . literally.” “I don’t understand why Dr. Hautval was sent to Auschwitz. She wasn’t Jewish, or a political prisoner.” “She was too outspoken. She stood up for the defenseless too often. She was deported in early 1943.”
