Conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire registration open here.
7th international conference
Medical Review Auschwitz:
Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire
6–8 October 2026
Kraków, Poland
Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire is an annual international conference designed to educate the world’s medical community about medical ethics and practice in the context of the Second World War.
Open-access collection of English translations from the Polish scientific journal Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz).
Video lectures from previous editions of the international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire.
Medical Review Auschwitz is an academic platform exploring the medical aspects of Nazi German persecution in concentration camps, focusing on physician involvement and the resistance of prisoner doctors. It fosters discussions on wartime medical crimes’ impact on bioethics today. Key components of the project include an open-access journal and an annual conference.
You can order books from our bookstore. Most of the books are available free of charge (shipping costs only).
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Medical Review Auschwitz
After a period of focused behind-the-scenes work, we’re excited to reconnect and share new updates from the Medical Review Auschwitz project.
Over the past few months, our team has been carefully planning the next phase of our work and preparing several meaningful initiatives. Today, we’re proud to announce that our collaboration with the Finkelstein Foundation will continue in 2026.
Their generous support made it possible for us to host our 2025 conference and redesign our project website—strengthening historical awareness and deepening essential conversations about ethics and professionalism in the medical field.
More updates are coming soon.
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Medical Review Auschwitz is led by the Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization. You can help us continue the project by making a donation. Thank you for your support.