Lecture recordings from the Medical Review Auschwitz 2025 conference are now available — watch 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.
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Medical Review Auschwitz
Today, the Jagiellonian University marked the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp with a solemn gathering in Collegium Novum.
The session, opened by Prof. Igor Gościński, Chair of Kraków Medical Society, and Prof. Maciej Małecki, Vice-Rector for Collegium Medicum, took place on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, reaffirming the University’s commitment to memory, reflection, and responsible historical education.
Speakers emphasized the enduring duty to remember the victims, honor the witnesses, and confront the mechanisms of hatred and totalitarian violence.
The session also highlighted ongoing scholarly work, including the Medical Review Auschwitz Project, which continues the legacy of Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (1961–1991), one of the earliest efforts to document Nazi medical crimes and preserve this crucial body of research.
You can learn more about the Medical Review Auschwitz Project on our website: mra.piebm.org/project/
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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.