The project

Medical Review Auschwitz project is developed as a platform for international academic discussion on the medical aspects and consequences of the Nazi German persecution in the concentration camps, including the history of physicians’ involvement in the Holocaust on the one hand, and on the other the heroic stances of prisoner doctors and other medical practitioners interned in the camps who acted in defiance of the machine of genocide, as well as the implications of the wartime medical history for present-day bioethics and medical practice. Read more...

The journal

Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz) was a scientific journal published annually from 1961 to 1991 by the Kraków Medical Society. The periodical started as a reaction of the Cracovian physicians, many of them Nazi German camp survivors themselves, to the unprecedented medical consequences that internment in concentration camps had for prisoners, resulting in pioneering research, including that on posttraumatic stress disorder. It included over 1,000 articles based on detailed examinations of thousands of former prisoners and reflections of survivors who were medical practitioners or professionals in medicine-related fields themselves, bringing a unique perspective into the research presented. For a long time unavailable for the international community, Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim is now being successively translated into English and made available in open access. Read more...

The conference

Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire is an annual international conference organized since 2018 intended to educate the world’s medical community about the violations of medical ethics during the Second World War, the spectrum of medical professionals’ stances in the face of the concentration camps—from the criminal to the heroic—and the contemporary ethical implications of Nazi medicine and healthcare policy. The event is organized as a joint effort of a number of institutions from Poland, Israel, and the US. Read more...

Biographies

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A public task implemented within the DIALOG Program of the Ministry of Education and Science

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FINANCED WITH THE STATE FUNDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
“DIALOG” program of the Ministry of Education and Science
“Medical Review Auschwitz — medicine in the Nazi German concentration camps”
Value of funding: 789,400 PLN
Total funding amount: 789,400 PLN

SFINANSOWANO ZE ŚRODKÓW BUDŻETU PAŃSTWA
Program „Dialog” Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki
Zadanie: „Medical Review Auschwitz - medycyna w niemieckich nazistowskich obozach koncentracyjnych”
Finansowanie: 789 400 zł
Całkowita wartość zadania: 789 400 zł

Projekt finansowany z budżetu państwa w ramach konkursu Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych RP „Dyplomacja publiczna 2022”.

Nazwa zadania: „Umiędzynarodowienie dorobku naukowego polskich badaczy poprzez udostępnienie społeczności całego świata wybranych artykułów z „Przeglądu Lekarskiego – Oświęcim” przetłumaczonych na język angielski i umieszczonych w portalu Medical Review Auschwitz”

Dofinansowanie: 90 000 zł
Całkowita wartość: 90 000 zł

Przekład artykułów z "Przeglądu Lekarskiego - Oświęcim" na język angielski, udostępnienie przekładów w portalu internetowym www.mp.pl/auschwitz oraz promocja materiałów w mediach społecznościowych

Project financed with the state funds from the “Dyplomacja publiczna 2022” grant competition of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

Public task name: “Providing the global community with free access through the website Medical Review Auschwitz to scientific papers published in the Polish Journal Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim and translated into English”

Value of funding: 90,000 PLN
Total funding amount: 90,000 PLN

English translation of articles from Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim, publishing the translations online at www.mp.pl/auschwitz and promoting the materials in social media.

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A public task co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of Public Diplomacy 2017 (Dyplomacja Publiczna 2017) competition, Cooperation in Public Diplomacy 2017 (Współpraca w dziedzinie dyplomacji publicznej 2017) component.

A public task financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of Public Diplomacy 2022 (Dyplomacja Publiczna 2022) competition.

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