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Conference

Medical Review Auschwitz

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

6th edition
15–17 September 2025
Kraków, Poland

2019 edition

PROGRAM

The Holocaust as a critical point in the development of medical and research ethics? 
Dr. Stacy Gallin 
Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, USA
VIDEO

Medicine and morality under the Nazis 
Dr. Tessa Chelouche 
Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa) 
VIDEO

Motivations of Nazi doctors and whether these motivations have modern day relevance 
Prof. Susan Miller 
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA 
VIDEO

Teaching medical students about the history of doctors’ involvement in the Holocaust: opportunities and challenges 
Prof. Matthew Wynia 
University of Colorado, USA 
VIDEO

“The corpses are still walking …”: a discussion about the case of German SS doctor Johann Paul Kremer
Dr. Maria Ciesielska 
Unit of UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa), Lazarski University, Poland 
VIDEO

A doctor from Auschwitz called Mephisto
Helena Kubica 
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland 
VIDEO

Doctor Stefania Perzanowska: the founder of the women’s camp hospital in KL Lublin 
Marta Grudzińska 
State Museum at Majdanek 
Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp, Poland 
VIDEO

Moral and ethical dilemmas faced by physicians who were Auschwitz prisoners:
Stefan Budziaszek, Krankenbauältester of Buna-Monowitz prisoners’ hospital* 
Prof. Bogdan Musiał 
Institute of National Remembrance, Poland 
VIDEO

Professor Antoni Kępiński on the concentration camp syndrome 
Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn 
Jagiellonian University, Poland 
VIDEO

Long-term psychosomatic impact in Holocaust offspring 
Prof. Jacques Barth 
University of Southern California, USA 
VIDEO

Resilience and the role of the doctor: the Auschwitz experience 
Prof. Rael Strous 
Tel Aviv University, Israel 
VIDEO

Professor Julian Aleksandrowicz, physician of the hospital in the Kraków Ghetto, initiator of the Righteous Among the Nations Medal
Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki 
Jagiellonian University, Poland 
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