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Conference

Medical Review Auschwitz

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

6th edition
15–17 September 2025
Kraków, Poland

2018 edition

PROGRAM 


Medical Review – Auschwitz: the concept and its creators* 
Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn 
Jagiellonian University, Poland
VIDEO

Selections carried out by SS doctors in the hospitals of the Auschwitz concentration camp* 
Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz 
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum 
VIDEO

Nazi German physicians: the antithesis of humanitarian medicine 
Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki 
Jagiellonian University, Poland 
VIDEO

Block 10: the experimental block in the women’s camp at Auschwitz* 
Dr. Maria Ciesielska 
Lazarski University, Poland 
VIDEO

Pseudo-medical experiments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp: a survivor’s story* 
Dr. Wanda Półtawska 
Poland 
VIDEO

Ethical transgressions in anatomical science during the Third Reich: the trace to Auschwitz 
Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt 
Harvard University, USA 
VIDEO

The evolution of the KZ-syndrome through the generations* 
Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn 
Jagiellonian University, Poland 
VIDEO


Assistance dispensed to Auschwitz survivors in 1945 by Polish doctors and medical personnel* 
Dr. Jacek Lachendro 
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
VIDEO

 
Ethical implications of Nazi medicine for current medical practice, healthcare policy and human rights endeavors 
Dr. Stacy Gallin 
Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, USA 
VIDEO

Panel discussion
ALL SPEAKERS
VIDEO

Supported by
2025
Finkelstein Foundation
For the development of a new website and the conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire in 2025