Conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire
6–8 October 2026 · Kraków, Poland
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
What did it mean to be a doctor under occupation?
In occupied Poland, the everyday reality of medical practice was transformed by persecution, shortages, restrictions and an uncertain future.
But how did physicians experience this reality — and how was it reflected in the literature and memoirs of the time?
Our latest publication brings an English translation of "Problems Facing the Medical Profession During the Nazi Occupation of Poland as Described in Fiction and Memoirs".
A new article, a different perspective on medicine under occupation — now available to read in English and open access.
Read the new MRA Translation article: mra.piebm.org/library/problems-facing-the-medical-profession-during-the-nazi-occupation-of-poland-as-described-in-fiction-and-memoirs/
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