These atrocities went on until the late 1970s when local journalists started writing articles about the happenings at the hospital. Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia visited the hospital in 1979 and called it a Nazi concentration camp. The hospital was closed not too long after. Daniela Arbex, the author of O Holocausto Brasileiro (The Brazilian Holocaust), also helped create awareness of the horror at the hospital. “I went looking for survivors. And thanks to them I was able to rescue what had happened behind the walls,” she said. Those who survived the Barbacena institution were transferred to residential buildings and given...