Pre-conference visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
19 September 2022 (Monday)
A special guided tour—including places not available to the public.
The number of places is limited.
Conference
20 September 2022 (Tuesday)
The Helena Modrzejewska Stary Theatre in Kraków
Jagiellońska 1, 31-110 Kraków
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Welcome address
Medical Review Auschwitz: a documentary
Stanisław Kłodziński: Auschwitz prisoner, physician, and social activist, co-editor of Medical Review – Auschwitz*
Teresa Wontor-Cichy
State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland
The Jewish medical institutions and their activities in Krakow during the Holocaust*
Dr. Agnieszka Zajączkowska-Drożdż
Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
The ethical challenges of Jewish physicians in the ghettoes during the Holocaust and their present-day relevance
Dr. Miriam Offer
Western Galilee College, Akko, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Brains from German-occupied Poland. How German neuropathologists collected brains from the Czyste and other Jewish hospitals in 1940
Prof. Paul Weindling
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Refreshment break
The effectiveness of Carl Clauberg's forced sterilizations. New findings from little-noticed original documents on the human experiments in Block 10 at Auschwitz
Prof. Hans-Joachim Lang
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Prosecuting evil: the case of Carl Clauberg. The mindset of a perpetrator and the reluctance of the judiciary in Germany, 1955-1957
Prof. Knut Ruyter
University of Oslo, Norway
The field office of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (currently Max Planck Society) in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau*
Prof. Bogdan Musiał
Poland
What can be learned from the Holocaust survivors’ adaptation to hunger and the long term effects of anorexia/bulimia on the cardiovascular system
Prof. Jacques Barth
Department of Cardiology of the Jeremiasz Research Foundation in Haarlem, Netherlands
The role of psychiatry during the Holocaust: Perpetrators and redemption
Prof. Susan Miller
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
The Sino-Japanese War in which Dr Mitsuo Kaneda served: The collapse of Japanese military ethics and the medical crimes of Unit 731
Dr. Giichiro Ohno
Hokkaido Prefectural Teuri Clinic, Japan
Lunch break
What are the basic historical facts that every medical student should know about the history of health professional involvement in the Holocaust
Prof. Matthew Wynia
University of Colorado, USA
Holocaust: Lessons for medicine. Our experience of teaching medicine and the Holocaust for the last 10 years
Prof. Esteban González-López
Prof. Rosa Ríos-Cortés
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Can art exist without a soul?
Prof. Karol Gąsienica Szostak
State University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz, Poland
Panel discussion
Dinner
Piano concert by Jakub Kuszlik, a laureate of the International Chopin Piano Competition (2021)
* Lecture in Polish translated simultaneously into English.
Workshops
21 September 2022 (Wednesday)
Collegium Novodvorscianum
ul. Św. Anny 12, 33-332 Kraków
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Ideological and legal bases of the Nazi eugenics
Dr. Katarzyna du Vall
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
What should be the core learning objectives for health sciences students learning about medical involvement in the Holocaust?
Prof. Matthew Wynia
University of Colorado, USA
How our personal beliefs have the potential to create moral harm
Prof. Susan Miller
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
The language of all the workshops is English only.
