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Conference

Medical Review Auschwitz

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

6th edition
15–17 September 2025
Kraków, Poland

2024 edition

PROGRAM


Session I

Brain activity during extreme starvation 
Prof. Ivan Lefkovits 
Survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, Switzerland 
VIDEO

Medical care on the verge of genocide 
Prof. Jacques Barth 
Jeremiasz Medical Research Foundation in Haarlem, the Netherlands 
VIDEO

Lethal collusion: The essential role physicians played in advancing racial hygiene policies in the Nazi era 
Prof. Mildred Solomon 
Harvard Medical School, USA 
VIDEO

From the ramp to the experimental block: The fate of 100 women from the famous 20th Belgian convoy 
Prof. Hans-Joachim Lang 
Universität Tübingen, Germany 
VIDEO

The SS doctor Hans Münch and his multiple injections on women prisoners in Block 10 Auschwitz 
Prof. Paul Weindling 
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom 
VIDEO

Creating with compassion a documentary for the classroom: Horrors and polarized characters: The Girl From Salonika: Surviving Block 10  
Alison Wilson 
Australian filmmaker and director, Spain 
VIDEO

Session II 

Investigations by the Institute of National Remembrance on medical experiments during World War II  
Prof. Karol Polejowski 
Institute of National Remembrance, Poland 
VIDEO

Maternity Ward in Frauenlager in Birkenau 
Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy 
State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland 
VIDEO

“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?” (Job 6:11).
The meaning of hope in medicine – lessons from Auschwitz 
Prof. Marta Soniewicka 
Jagiellonian University, Poland 
VIDEO

Documentary „Położna” (Midwife [in Auschwitz]) with introduction by Maria Stachurska (film director)  

Session III 

Teaching medicine and the Holocaust 
Prof. Esteban González López, Prof. Rosa Ríos-Cortes 
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 
VIDEO

Medicine during the Holocaust: The lessons we have not learned  
Dr. Tessa Chelouche 
Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair in Bioethics – WMA Cooperation Center, Israel
VIDEO 

Learning from the perpetrators: An interrogation of quotidian behavior patterns 
Prof. David Goldman  
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, USA 
VIDEO

Can we learn from the Holocaust without drawing Nazi analogies?  
Prof. Matthew Wynia  
Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, USA 
VIDEO

Never forget and always remember: Paradigms for the present and future of bioethics 
Prof. Rebecca Brendel  
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, USA 
VIDEO

Panel discussion 
All speakers 

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