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Meet Jay R. Malone, MD, PhD a pediatric critical care physician and clinical ethicist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, where he is currently the Medical Director of Ethics and chair of the medical ethics committee.
He received his Ph.D. in Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University. His dissertation focused on the impact of invasive medical technologies on the suffering of children and families.
Dr. Malone’s ongoing research focuses on the role of suffering in pediatric critical illness, and the impact of emotion on family communication around the dying process. He is also a medical faculty member with the FASPE – Fellowships for the Study of Professional Ethics
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MeetMarius Turda, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University, having previously taught at UCL and University of Oxford.
He has authored, co-authored and edited more than 20 books on the history of eugenics, race, and racism in East-Central Europe and beyond, including Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Race published in 6 volumes in 2021 (paperback 2025).
His latest book is In Search of the Perfect Romanian: National Specificity, Racial Degeneration and Social Selection in Modern Romania (2024; illustrated ed. 2025; Eng. ed. forthcoming 2026).
He has also curated four exhibitions on eugenics, racial anthropology and biopolitics, most notably the one entitled 'We are not Alone': Legacies of Eugenics. His most recent public engagement project is www.confront-eugenics.org
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Meet Michael von Cranach – honorary Professor, Hochschule München Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist.
Born in 1941, Prof. von Cranach received his early education in Madrid, Spain, then he study medicine at the University of Bonn (1959–1965). He was awarded a British Council Scholarship to the Institute of Psychiatry in London (1968–1969), deepening his expertise in psychiatric research and practice.
From 1970 to 1980, he served at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich, followed by a distinguished tenure as Director of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren (1980–2006). Since 2006, he has maintained a psychiatric practice in Munich.
Prof. von Cranach is an active member of the working group “Psychiatrie und Fürsorge im Nationalsozialismus” and the “Gedenkinitiative München”, contributing to historical and ethical discourse in psychiatry.
His research and publications focus on:
Diagnostic processes in psychiatry
Social psychiatry, including reform and service evaluation
Ethics in psychiatric practice
Psychiatry during National Socialism
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Meet Filip Gańczak (born 1981) holds a PhD in political science. He is an employee of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw and editor of the Institute of National Remembrance Review. Major publications: »Polen geben wir nicht preis« Der Kampf der DDR-Führung gegen die Solidarność 1980/81 (Paderborn 2020), Jan Sehn und die Ahndung der Verbrechen von Auschwitz. Eine Biografie (Göttingen 2022, Chinese edition Beijing 2024). Winner of the Witold Pilecki International Book Award (2021).
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Meet Teresa Wontor-Cichy – historian, Ph.D., in the Research Centre of the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim. She started working at Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz after receiving a Master’s degree in History from the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland in 1993. Her thesis topic was on social welfare in 16th-century Poland.
Her professional research is focused on Auschwitz and the Holocaust. She is the author of several historical books exploring the experiences of different prisoner groups, such as: Imprisoned for Their Faith. Jehovah’s Witnesses in KL Auschwitz and Duchowieństwo i życie religijne w Auschwitz (Clergy and Religious Practices in Auschwitz, published in Polish), Saint Maximillian Maria Kolbe. She is also an author of and historical consultant on numerous biographies published in German and Polish, including: Wilhelm Brasse’s Fotograf 3444: Auschwitz 1940-1945; Maria Anna Potocka’s Zofia Posmysz szrajberka 7566: Auschwitz 1942-1945; Henri Kichka, Byłem więźniem dziesięciu obozów 1940-1945; and, Natali Budzyńska’s Dzieci nie płakały. Historia mojego wuja Alfred Trzebinskiego, lekarza SS. Various works have also been published in English and German.
Teresa Wontor-Cichy has been our lecturer since 2022. Her previous lectures are available in our E-library for your reference: mra.piebm.org/library/filter/authors:teresa-wontor-cichy/
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Meet Kamila Uzarczyk – assistant professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine at the Medical University of Wrocław, Poland Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Piastów Śląskich we Wrocławiu. She received her PhD from University of Wrocław in 2001 with a dissertation titled The Concpt of Race Hygiene and Implementation of Race Hygiene Legislation in German Province of Silesia (Toruń: Marszałek, 2002).
Research interests include history of social hygiene movement, history of eugenics and implementation of eugenic policies in interwar years, extermination of people with disabilities in the Third Reich, unethical medical experiments and brain research on “euthanasia” victims during WW II. She is a member of The Lancet commission on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow.
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Meet Herwig Czech – professor of history of medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Institute for Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine (Josephinum). He co-directs the research project “Brain research at institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the context of National Socialist crimes,” funded by the Max Planck Society.
He is also co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Nazism, medicine and the Holocaust. His main fields of research are medicine and biopolitics before, during and after National Socialism, with a special focus on the history of eugenics and ‘racial hygiene,’ public health, psychiatry, pediatrics and neuropathology, and the history of Viennese medicine since the late 18th century.
Studied history at the Universities of Graz, Vienna, Paris VII and Duke. Gedenkdienst (voluntary civil service) at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris. 2007 PhD from Vienna University with a thesis on Medicine in National Socialist Vienna. Teaching assignments at the Universities of Newcastle, Wroclaw and Vienna. 2004 to 2011 and 2014 to 2017 research fellow at the Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance, 2011 to 2014 recipient of an APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 2019 visiting fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité – University Medicine Berlin.
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Meet Karla Childers joined Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in October 2013 in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer where her primary responsibility has been leading and coordinating various ethics-based, science and technology policy projects.
In her current role, Ms. Childers leads enterprise bioethics and bioethics-based R&D policy, public/private partnerships and external engagement for the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO), including development of bioethics-based R&D policies and driving internal and external thought leadership in the field of bioethics and policy.
Ms. Childers is the Chair of the J&J Bioethics Committee, which serves as an internal forum providing advice on bioethical questions within J&J. She is responsible for the management and conduct of that committee and relevant bioethics consultations. She serves as a bioethics subject matter expert for various internal and external science and technology policy work and coordinates the internal bioethics educational program sponsored by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer.
She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry from Purdue University (IUPUI-Indianapolis Campus) and a Master of Science in Jurisprudence with a concentration in Health Law from Seton Hall Law School. She is also a graduate of Columbia University with a Master of Science in Bioethics. When not working, she enjoys cooking for friends and family and spending time outdoors with her husband, Andy, and two dogs, Jo Jo and Kelsey.
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Meet Volker Roelcke, M.D, graduated in medicine (Dr. med., Heidelberg University) and social anthropology (M. Phil., Cambridge University, UK); he is a board qualified psychiatrist.
From 2003 until 2025, he was full professor and director of the Institute for the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, Giessen University, Germany.
In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences; from 2010-2015, he acted as chair of the historical commission of the German Association of Psychiatry (DGPPN) on the history of its predecessor-organization during the Nazi period; in 2012, he was co-initiator of the Nuremberg Declaration of the German Medical Association on the responsibility of German physicians for medical atrocities during the Nazi period; in 2021, he acted as founding co-chair of the „Lancet Commmission on Medicine and the Holocaust: historical evidence, implications for today, teachings for tomorrow“.
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Meet Thorsten Wagner – the Executive Director for Strategy and Academics of FASPE – Fellowships for the Study of Professional Ethics – and has been involved with the organization since its beginnings in 2009.
He is a German historian, who grew up in Denmark and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and his graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Freie Universität Berlin, earning his MA from the TU Berlin in 1998.
Living in Berlin for about two decades, Thorsten worked as a research fellow at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and started teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
From 2010 until 2019, he held a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad/University of Copenhagen. Having authored numerous academic publications in the fields of Modern German and European Jewish History, antisemitism, Holocaust studies, cultures of memory, and Israeli history and society, he also worked as the historical consultant for the acclaimed documentary “Germans and Jews”, dealing with contemporary Germany, its relationship to its Nazi past and the reemergence of Jewish life.
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Meet Dr. Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD — winner of the Zdzisław Jan Ryn Award for Best Lecture at the 5th Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire.
Dr. Solomon is a part-time professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where she directs the Fellowship in Bioethics at the HMS Center for Bioethics. She has mentored over 220 professionals in health and science ethics. Dr. Solomon is President Emerita of The Hastings Center, where she served from 2012 to 2023. Her research focuses on end-of-life care, organ transplantation, medical professionalism, and responsible research. She has served on numerous influential committees and is frequently cited in mainstream media. Dr. Solomon previously held senior positions at the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Education Development Center. She holds a BA from Smith College and a doctorate from Harvard University.
🎓 Winning Lecture: mra.piebm.org/2024_lecture
📢 In the coming weeks, we will introduce all of this year’s conference speakers and the topics of their lectures.
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Final Day Workshops – Registration Open
Two concluding workshops offer an opportunity for participants to engage with vital dimensions of historical research and contemporary medical ethics. These sessions are designed to support professional reflection and deepen understanding of the moral responsibilities inherent in medical and academic practice.
▪️ "Exploring the potential of search and identification work for war victims inside the Office of Search and Identification of the Institute of National Remembrance"
Presenters: Magdalena Krajewska, Aleksandra Baryła, Angelika Słodka
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Institute of National Remembrance – Office of Search and Identification, Poland
This session introduces the work of a multidisciplinary team—historians, archaeologists, forensic experts, and geneticists—who investigate burial sites of victims of totalitarian repression (1917–1990). Operating across Poland and abroad, the Office of Search and Identification aims to restore public memory and dignity to those erased by communist regimes.
▪️"Motivations and Complicity:
The Case of Herta Oberheuser"
Presenters: Jay Malone, Thorsten Wagner
FASPE – Fellowships for the Study of Professional Ethics, USA
This workshop draws on historical case studies to explore the moral challenges faced by professionals under the Nazi regime. Using the example of physician Herta Oberheuser, FASPE invites participants to critically examine questions of complicity, responsibility, and ethical leadership within medical and academic contexts today.
We encourage all conference participants—and those newly interested—to attend these workshops as part of a shared commitment to historical accountability and professional reflection.
*Limited number of participants
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We are pleased to announce that the 6th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire has been granted 12.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education – EACCME
Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™.
During the conference you are entitled to receive up to 12.5 credits according to your actual participation in the event after filling in the feedback form.
All details on the accreditation and conversion process can be found here:
medical-auschwitz.one/conference/cme-cpd
As the conference organizers, we aim to support the international community of doctors, medical professionals and students in drawing meaningful lessons that will resonate with future generations.
Together, we hope to make a lasting contribution to deepening the understanding of one of the most harrowing episodes in medical history, fostering reflection and ethical growth within the healthcare field.
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As the day progresses, the group moves from historical overview to deeply personal testimony—shifting from collective memory to individual experience.
The next part of the preconference visit leads participants from Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz to the exhibition “Negatives of a Memory. Labyrinths” by Marian Kołodziej, located at the Centrum św. Maksymiliana w Harmężach
Created by a former Auschwitz prisoner and artist, this powerful visual narrative goes far beyond documentation. Through haunting imagery and metaphor, Kołodziej shares his inner world shaped by trauma, silence, and survival.
For the international group of doctors and medical students, this encounter becomes an intimate and emotional reflection—one that deepens the understanding of the ethical questions explored throughout the conference.
We leave you with the words of the artist himself:
"A look at Auschwitz through drawing. Anyone who has been to Auschwitz and survived Auschwitz has been left for life with the inalienable stigma of the human tragedy unfolding there. I would like to hint to the viewer: be patient, patiently read everything that is written in these drawings. These are my 'drawn words' to you. They must be read."
— Marian Kołodziej
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On the first day of the conference, the Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz will once again welcome an international group of doctors and medical students participating in the 6th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire
More than just a historical visit, this experience offers essential context for the days ahead—providing a sobering foundation for reflection on medical ethics, professional responsibility, and some of the darkest chapters of 20th-century history.
Visit includes Block 10 with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lang, a German journalist, historian, and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tübingen.
Dr. Lang is the author of: "The women of Block 10: Medical experiments in Auschwitz" book about cruel medical experiments carried out on around 800 women there, over a third of whom survived the camp.
It is a moment of quiet confrontation with the past—one that will profoundly shape the conversations still to come.
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We are honored to announce that Aleksander Miszalski, Mayor of the City of Kraków @krakow_pl, has assumed honorary patronage of the 6th International Conference “Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind Barbed Wire”
This patronage holds special significance, as the Medical Review Auschwitz project was founded in Kraków and remains deeply connected to the city’s academic and ethical legacy. The Mayor’s support reaffirms Kraków’s role as a center of historical reflection and responsible medical scholarship.
The conference continues the mission of Medical Review – Auschwitz (Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim), a renowned publication of the Kraków Medical Society, recognized globally as a leading source on the medical, psychological, and social consequences of concentration camp imprisonment.
We extend our sincere gratitude to Mayor Miszalski for supporting the conference.
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We are proud to announce that Łukasz Smółka, Marshal of the Małopolska Region, has assumed honorary patronage of the 6th International Conference “Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind Barbed Wire.”
This impactful conference will take place from 15–17 September 2025 in Kraków, Poland, and is organized by the Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine. The conference serves as a global platform for medical professionals, ethicists, historians, and students to reflect on the ethical violations committed by physicians during the Holocaust and explore their implications for modern medical practice.
We express our sincere gratitude to Marshal Łukasz Smółka for supporting this meaningful initiative, which aims to ensure that the lessons of history continue to inform and strengthen the ethical foundations of healthcare today.
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🕊Honoring truth.
We’re honored to welcome Dr. Leon Weintraub—Holocaust survivor, Auschwitz witness, and Swedish physician—as Guest of Honor and keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference “Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind Barbed Wire.”
Born in 1926 in Łódź, Poland, Dr. Weintraub vividly recalls the German invasion on 1 September 1939, followed by the establishment of the Lodz Ghetto, where his family was forced to move in winter 1939. At age 14, he began working various jobs including as an electrician. In August 1944, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Leon was separated from them.
He soon escaped and joined a prisoner transport to Gross-Rosen, then worked as an electrician in subcamps Dörnhau, Flossenbürg, and Offenburg. Liberated in April 1945 by French forces near Donaueschingen, he recovered from typhoid fever on the Reichenau peninsula. That September, he reunited with three surviving sisters from Bergen-Belsen.
Leon began studying medicine in Göttingen in 1946 and returned to Poland in 1950. His wife and son joined him, and two more sons were born. He earned his PhD in 1966 and worked in Warsaw until anti-Semitism forced him to leave Poland in 1969, emigrating to Sweden with his family.
He dedicated his life to speaking out against hatred and the perversion of medical ethics under Nazi rule.
At 99, he remains a powerful voice for remembrance:
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Learn more about Dr. Leon Weintraub from his address at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3k2tQ17XNc
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September 15–17, 2025
6th International Conference: “Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind Barbed Wire”
The Polish Institute of Evidence Based Medicine, in cooperation with the Kraków Medical Society, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Krakowie Institute of National Remembrance, School of Medicine Jagiellonian University, Kraków and the Regional Medical Chamber in Krakow Okręgowa Izba Lekarska w Krakowie, invites you to the 6th International Conference “Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind Barbed Wire.”
🎙 Guest of Honor: Dr Leon Weintraub
Dr Leon Weintraub—physician and survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps—as our Keynote Speaker.
Among the 13 topics of presentations during the conference are:
-“Physician leadership in Nazi euthanasia and sterilization campaigns: How did it go so wrong?”,
– “Nazi medical crimes: Escalation of racist ideology, economic rationality, or crimes of opportunity?”,
-“Hygiene Institut der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz O/S – what do we know about the main laboratory in KL Auschwitz”
…and more.
🤝 Conference Partners:
Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz
Harvard Medical School
International Chair in Bioethics
FASPE – Fellowships for the Study of Professional Ethics
Centrum św. Maksymiliana w Harmężach
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Hans und Berthold Finkelstein Stiftung, The Finkelstein Foundation
Join us in Kraków to remember, reflect, and reaffirm the ethical foundations of medicine.
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🩺 Remembering the Heroes: Dr Bellert and the Polish Red Cross at Auschwitz 🌟
On 5 February 1945, 38 Polish Red Cross volunteers led by Dr Bellert arrived at the liberated Auschwitz Camp to provide urgent medical care. These committed professionals, mostly experienced assistant physicians from St. Lazarus’ Hospital, threw themselves into their vital work.
Despite facing desperate conditions with no light or running water, and the harrowing sight of 300 frozen corpses, they organized permanent medical care for about 4,800 sick survivors in what became the Polish Red Cross Camp Hospital at Oświęcim (Szpital Obozowy PCK w Oświęcimiu).
Around 90 survivors were also working in these hospitals – they used to be camp’s senior and middle-ranking medical staff as well as administrative staff.
Hospital operated from 6 February to 1 October 1945.
Dr Bellert later reflected, “Today, when we recall those months of work on the premises of the horrific camp that was hell itself, we realise that we were very much needed there.”
Learn more from Dr Bellert’s first-hand report:
www.mp.pl/auschwitz/journal/english/214760,hospital-in-oswiecim-after-the-liberation-of-auschwitz
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The Medical Review Auschwitz Scholarship Program offers physicians-in-training a unique chance to learn about and reflect on the role of health professionals in the Holocaust. It is organized as part of the conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire.
Last year Laura Kelley from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus spent 4 days with participants. Her account provides a first-hand insight into the experience.
Learn more in part one of this four-part series
Beyond the Classroom: Horrors of Holocaust Sites Shape Future Medical Professionals
Part one of the "Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire" conference. Overview of the event in which fellows learned how Nazi doctors participated in atrocities.
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We encourage you to listen to an invitation from Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation.
A live broadcast with English translation will be shared on the Auschwitz Museum’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/auschwitzmemorial
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A solemn session of the Kraków Medical Society, Jagiellonian University, and Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
First organized in 1960 by Professor Igor Gościński, then president of the Kraków Medical Society, the session has been held annually ever since.
In memory of Professor Władysław Fejkiel -physician, specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases. During World War II, he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps.
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On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army. The soldiers discovered about 7,000 prisoners left behind after the evacuation. They also found some 600 prisoners who had been shot by the SS or succumbed to disease, hunger and exhaustion in the camp’s final days.
January 27 marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day dedicated to ensuring that lessons from these horrific events are never forgotten, even 80 years later.
A commemorative event is held on this day at the Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz
Join us, and take a moment to pause and reflect on the fates of imprisoned physicians and other victims murdered in concentration camps during the Second World War.
A live broadcast with English translation will be shared on the Auschwitz Museum’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/auschwitzmemorial
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We are pleased to announce the official dates for 6th International Conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire!
15-17 September 2025, Kraków, Poland
Further details on registration and the conference program will be provided on our website: www.medicalreviewauschwitz.one
Please mark your calendars!
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We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our partners for their effort and support in making the 5th International Conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire a success.
We truly appreciate your contribution and look forward to future opportunities to work together.
◾️Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz
◾️University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities
◾️Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
◾️ International Chair in Bioethics – WMA Cooperation Center
◾️Śląska Izba Lekarska w Katowicach
(Regional Medical Chamber in Katowice)
◾️City of Kraków Kraków PL
◾️Marshal of the Malopolska Region
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We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our valued co-organizers for their invaluable contribution to the success of this year’s 5th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire
Your dedication, professionalism, and collaborative efforts were key to making the conference exceptional and meaningful.
Thank you for your outstanding partnership!
◾️Towarzystwo Lekarskie Krakowskie (Kraków Medical Society)
◾️Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Krakowie (Institute of National Remembrance)
◾️School of Medicine Jagiellonian University, Kraków
◾️Okręgowa Izba Lekarska w Krakowie (Regional Medical Chamber in Krakow)
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Congratulations to this year's winners of Z.J. Ryn Award!!
To prof. TERESA BAŁUK-ULEWICZOWA awarded for unique contribution to the Medical Review – Auschwitz project.
Since 2017, she has been an expert in translating articles from the journal Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz) into English, which are published on the project's website.
To Prof. MILDRED SOLOMON awarded for best lecture at the 5th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire with lecture:
"Lethal collusion: The essential role physicians played in advancing racial hygiene policies in the Nazi era"
Lecture will be available on-line soon.
The Award commemorates the initiator and expert consultant of the Medical Review Auschwitz project, Zdzisław Jan Ryn, MD, PhD.
The Award is a statuette designed and made by Karol Gąsienica Szostak, an eminent Polish sculptor.
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