Session 1. Medical care in Nazi German concentration and POW camps during World War II
4 October 2021 (Monday)
1. The women’s medical ward in Frauenkonzentrationslager Lublin (Majdanek)
Marta Grudzińska, MA
State Museum at Majdanek, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland
2. The prisoners’ hospital in Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the articles published in Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim
Dorota Sula, PhD
Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica, Poland
3. Childbirth in Stutthof concentration camp
Agnieszka Kłys, MA
Museum of Stutthof, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland
4. Medical care for POWs in Camp Fünfeichen (Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg) during the Second World War
Joanna Lusek, PhD
Upper Silesia Museum in Bytom, Poland
Session 2. Medical care in occupied Warsaw
5 October 2021 (Tuesday)
1. The Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw under Nazi German occupation, 1939–1944
Krzysztof Królikowski, MD
Society former Ujazdowski Hospital, Poland
2. Care for the wounded in the medical wards of the Warsaw Uprising
Anna Marek, PhD
Lazarski University Faculty of Medicine, Poland
3. Pediatrics in the Warsaw Ghetto. An attempt at conceptualizing the issue
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, PhD
University of Warsaw and Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
4. Fighting typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto
Marta Janczewska, MA
Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
Session 3. Victims of Auschwitz Block 10 and other topics
6 October 2021 (Wednesday)
1. A story of Dr Mitsuo Kaneda, the first person who introduced the Auschwitz report to Japan
Giichiro Ohno, MD
Tokatsu Hospital, Japan
2. The worth of a woman: Compensating the chemical sterilization victims of Auschwitz Block 10
Paul J. Weindling, PhD
Oxford Brookes University, UK
3. Froukje Carolina de Leeuw (1916-2002), a women prisoner doctor’s view of Block 10 in Auschwitz
Hans-Joachim Lang, PhD
Universität Tübingen, Germany
4. Jeremiasz Barth, a dentist: “Medical treatment means dealing with and surviving”
Marie Judille van Beurden Cahn, PhD
The Descendants of the Shoah Holland, Netherlands
Special session of the Krakow Medical Society
7 October 2021 (Thursday)
1. Introduction
Piotr Gajewski, MD, PhD, FACP
Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Poland
2. Cooperation of Jagiellonian University Medical College with Holocaust Museum LA
Piotr Laidler, PhD
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
3. Voices from the United States: Holocaust Museum LA
Michele Gold
Holocaust Museum LA, USA
Beth Kean
Holocaust Museum LA, USA
4. A pre-war Cracowian Jew Manek Werdiger and his role in creating The Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida
Aleksander Skotnicki, MD, PhD
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
9 October 2021 (Saturday)
1. Special introductory presentation: The ethics of mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations in hospitals
Susan Miller, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAFP
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
2. Live Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD
Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Marie Judille van Beurden Cahn, PhD
The Descendants of the Shoah Holland, Netherlands
Tessa Chelouche, MD
Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair in Bioethics, Israel
Maria Ciesielska, MD, PhD
Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics, Lazarski University, Poland
Marta Grudzińska, MA
State Museum at Majdanek, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, Poland
Marta Janczewska, MA
Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
Krzysztof Królikowski, MD
Society former Ujazdowski Hospital, Poland
Susan Miller, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAFP
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
Hans-Joachim Lang, PhD
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Anna Marek, PhD
Lazarski University Faculty of Medicine, Poland
Giichiro Ohno, MD
Tokatsu Hospital, Japan
Paul Weindling, PhD
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, PhD
University of Warsaw and Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
Teresa Wontor-Cichy, MA
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, MSPH, FACP
University of Colorado, USA