Biography Dr. René Quenouille

René Quenouille was born on 6 December 1884 in Sarlat-la-Canéda in France. After studying medicine, he opened a radiologist’s practice in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges near Paris in 1925. In October 1943, the SS deported him to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria, where he had to work as a prisoner doctor. Former prisoners later remembered that he helped French and Soviet prisoners in particular. On 17 July 1944, he was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he was in charge of the radiology department at the sickbay. When the 20 children arrived at Neuengamme, Quenouille was charged with their medical care. He was murdered on Bullenhuser Damm on 20 April 1945.