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
