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Medical Review Auschwitz

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

6th edition
15–17 September 2025
Kraków, Poland

2021 edition

PROGRAM

Session I
Medical care in Nazi German concentration and POW camps during World War II 

1. The women’s medical ward in Frauenkonzentrationslager Lublin (Majdanek) 
Marta Grudzińska, MA 
State Museum at Majdanek, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland 
VIDEO

2. The prisoners’ hospital in Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the articles published in Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim 
Dorota Sula, PhD 
Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica, Poland
VIDEO 

3. Childbirth in Stutthof concentration camp 
Agnieszka Kłys, MA 
Museum of Stutthof, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland 
VIDEO

4. Medical care for POWs in Camp Fünfeichen (Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg) during the Second World War 
Joanna Lusek, PhD 
Upper Silesia Museum in Bytom, Poland
VIDEO 

Session II
Medical care in occupied Warsaw 

1. The Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw under Nazi German occupation, 1939–1944 
Krzysztof Królikowski, MD 
Society former Ujazdowski Hospital, Poland 
VIDEO

2. Care for the wounded in the medical wards of the Warsaw Uprising 
Anna Marek, PhD 
Lazarski University Faculty of Medicine, Poland 
VIDEO

3. Pediatrics in the Warsaw Ghetto. An attempt at conceptualizing the issue 
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, PhD 
University of Warsaw and Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
VIDEO 

4. Fighting typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto 
Marta Janczewska, MA 
Jewish Historical Institute, Poland 
VIDEO

Session III
Victims of Auschwitz Block 10 and other topics 

1. A story of Dr Mitsuo Kaneda, the first person who introduced the Auschwitz report to Japan 
Giichiro Ohno, MD 
Tokatsu Hospital, Japan 
VIDEO

2. The worth of a woman: Compensating the chemical sterilization victims of Auschwitz Block 10 
Paul J. Weindling, PhD 
Oxford Brookes University, UK 
VIDEO

3. Froukje Carolina de Leeuw (1916-2002), a women prisoner doctor’s view of Block 10 in Auschwitz 
Hans-Joachim Lang, PhD 
Universität Tübingen, Germany 
VIDEO

4. Jeremiasz Barth, a dentist: “Medical treatment means dealing with and surviving” 
Marie Judille van Beurden Cahn, PhD 
The Descendants of the Shoah Holland, Netherlands 
VIDEO

Special session of the Krakow Medical Society 
VIDEO

1. Introduction 
Piotr Gajewski, MD, PhD, FACP 
Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Poland 

2. Cooperation of Jagiellonian University Medical College with Holocaust Museum LA 
Piotr Laidler, PhD 
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland 

3. Voices from the United States: Holocaust Museum LA 
Michele Gold 
Holocaust Museum LA, USA 
Beth Kean 
Holocaust Museum LA, USA 

4. A pre-war Cracowian Jew Manek Werdiger and his role in creating The Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida 
Aleksander Skotnicki, MD, PhD 
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland 

Panel Discussion and Q&A Session 
VIDEO

1. Special introductory presentation: The ethics of mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations in hospitals 

Susan Miller, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAFP 
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA 

2. Live Panel Discussion and Q&A Session 

Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD 
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, USA 

Marie Judille van Beurden Cahn, PhD 
The Descendants of the Shoah Holland, Netherlands 

Tessa Chelouche, MD 
Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair in Bioethics, Israel 

Maria Ciesielska, MD, PhD 
Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics, Lazarski University, Poland 

Marta Grudzińska, MA 
State Museum at Majdanek, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland 

Marta Janczewska, MA 
Jewish Historical Institute, Poland 

Krzysztof Królikowski, MD 
Society former Ujazdowski Hospital, Poland 

Susan Miller, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAFP 
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA 

Hans-Joachim Lang, PhD 
Universität Tübingen, Germany 

Anna Marek, PhD 
Lazarski University Faculty of Medicine, Poland 

Giichiro Ohno, MD 
Tokatsu Hospital, Japan 

Paul Weindling, PhD 
Oxford Brookes University, UK 

Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, PhD 
University of Warsaw and Jewish Historical Institute, Poland 

Teresa Wontor-Cichy, MA 
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland 

Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, MSPH, FACP 
University of Colorado, USA 

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