© (photo credit: INGIMAGE) Dividing cancer cell Although the Nazis and their collaborators knew the 170,000 Jews crowded into the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto would eventually be transferred to the Auschwitz and Chelmno death camps, the 170 physicians, along with nurses and midwives from the ghetto’s five hospitals, examined them regularly and kept meticulous records of their medical condition and starvation. These medical and death records were discovered after World War II and revealed information that can illuminate issues of chronic diseases and longevity. The main causes of death during the 3.5 years that the ghetto existed were exhaustion, infectious diseases...