Adélaïde Hautval

Adélaïde Haas Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988) was a French physician and psychiatrist who resisted Nazi medical practices during the Holocaust. Arrested in 1942 after crossing the demarcation line without authorisation, she was interned in several camps, including Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, before being deported in January 1943 to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of the Convoi des 31000. At Auschwitz, Hautval provided medical care to Jewish prisoners and refused to participate in forced sterilisation experiments. She was later transferred to Ravensbrück, where she remained imprisoned until liberation in 1945.

After the war, she resumed her medical career and testified in the 1964 British libel trial Dering v Uris, offering crucial evidence concerning medical crimes at Auschwitz. In 1965, she was recognised by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her moral courage and efforts to protect Jewish lives.