September 23-25, 2024
Kraków, Poland

Medical Review Auschwitz:
Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

September 23-25, 2024
Kraków, Poland

2018 Presentations

Medical Review – Auschwitz: the concept and its creators

Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Selections carried out by SS doctors in the hospitals of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Nazi German physicians: the antithesis of humanitarian medicine

Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Block 10: the experimental block in the women’s camp at Auschwitz

Dr. Maria Ciesielska, Lazarski University, Poland
Pseudo-medical experiments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp: a survivor’s story

Dr. Wanda Półtawska, Poland
Ethical transgressions in anatomical science during the Third Reich: the trace to Auschwitz

Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt, Harvard University, USA
The evolution of the KZ-syndrome through the generations

Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Assistance dispensed to Auschwitz survivors in 1945 by Polish doctors and medical personnel

Dr. Jacek Lachendro, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Ethical implications of Nazi medicine for current medical practice, healthcare policy and human rights endeavors

Dr. Stacy Gallin, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, USA
Panel discussion

Host: Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki

A public task co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of Public Diplomacy 2018 (Dyplomacja Publiczna 2018) competition.

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