Skip to content

Conference

Medical Review Auschwitz

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

6th edition
15–17 September 2025
Kraków, Poland

2022 edition

PROGRAM 

Stanisław Kłodziński: Auschwitz prisoner, physician, and social activist, co-editor of Medical Review – Auschwitz
Teresa Wontor-Cichy 
State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland 
VIDEO

The Jewish medical institutions and their activities in Krakow during the Holocaust
Dr. Agnieszka Zajączkowska-Drożdż 
Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland 
VIDEO

The ethical challenges of Jewish physicians in the ghettoes during the Holocaust and their present-day relevance 
Dr. Miriam Offer 
Western Galilee College, Akko, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
VIDEO

Brains from German-occupied Poland. How German neuropathologists collected brains from the Czyste and other Jewish hospitals in 1940 
Prof. Paul Weindling 
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom 
VIDEO

The effectiveness of Carl Clauberg’s forced sterilizations.
New findings from little-noticed original documents on the human experiments in Block 10 at Auschwitz 
Prof. Hans-Joachim Lang 
Universität Tübingen, Germany
VIDEO 

Prosecuting evil: the case of Carl Clauberg. The mindset of a perpetrator and the reluctance of the judiciary in Germany, 1955-1957 
Prof. Knut Ruyter 
University of Oslo, Norway 
VIDEO

The field office of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (currently Max Planck Society) in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau* 
Prof. Bogdan Musiał 
Poland 
VIDEO

What can be learned from the Holocaust survivors’ adaptation to hunger and the long term effects of anorexia/bulimia on the cardiovascular system 
Prof. Jacques Barth 
Department of Cardiology of the Jeremiasz Research Foundation in Haarlem, Netherlands 
VIDEO

The role of psychiatry during the Holocaust: Perpetrators and redemption 
Prof. Susan Miller 
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA 
VIDEO

The Sino-Japanese War in which Dr Mitsuo Kaneda served: The collapse of Japanese military ethics and the medical crimes of Unit 731 
Dr. Giichiro Ohno 
Hokkaido Prefectural Teuri Clinic, Japan 
VIDEO

What are the basic historical facts that every medical student should know about the history of health professional involvement in the Holocaust 
Prof. Matthew Wynia 
University of Colorado, USA 
VIDEO

Holocaust: Lessons for medicine. Our experience of teaching medicine and the Holocaust for the last 10 years 
Prof. Esteban González-López 
Prof. Rosa Ríos-Cortés 
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 

Can art exist without a soul? 
Prof. Karol Gąsienica Szostak 
State University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Poland 
VIDEO

Panel discussion 
ALL SPEAKERS
VIDEO

WORKSHOPS

Ideological and legal bases of the Nazi eugenics 
Dr. Katarzyna du Vall 
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland 

What should be the core learning objectives for health sciences students learning about medical involvement in the Holocaust? 
Prof. Matthew Wynia 
University of Colorado, USA 

How our personal beliefs have the potential to create moral harm 
Prof. Susan Miller 
Houston Methodist Research Institute, 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