5th international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

We would like to invite you to take part in the international conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire, which will take place on 23–25 September 2024 in Kraków, Poland.

The conference is organized by the Polish Institute for Evidence-Based Medicine in collaboration with the Kraków Medical Society, Institute of National Remembrance, and Jagiellonian University Medical College. Partners include the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, and the International Chair of Bioethics, and other institutions.

The aim of the conference is to educate the world’s medical community about the medical ethics and practice in the context of the Second World War, looking into the behavior of physicians and other medical professionals imprisoned in Nazi German concentration camps, prisons, ghettoes, or other places of detainment, as well as bringing to light the malpractice and ethical violations of the Nazi German doctors, hoping to demonstrate the implications of the history of medicine during that period for contemporary medical practice and healthcare policy.

The conference is part of the Medical Review Auschwitz project, developed with the aim of sharing with the international community the unique scientific documents published over 31 years (1961–1991) in the medical journal Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz). Articles from this journal are being successively translated into English and made available on this website.

We hope that this conference will make a significant contribution to further the understanding of one of the darkest chapters in the history of medicine, both by spreading the knowledge of the often heroic attempts by medical professionals to counteract the grim reality of the war and the Holocaust and by educating about those physicians who became the perpetrators themselves. By doing this, the Organizers of the conference intend to help the international community draw a lesson for future generations.

We look forward to seeing you in Kraków in September 2024.

Sincerely,

Igor Gościński
MD, PhD
President, Kraków Medical Society

Piotr Gajewski
MD, PhD, FACP
President, Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine

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