Registration

Welcome address

Brain activity during extreme starvation

Prof. Ivan Lefkovits

Survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, Switzerland

Medical care on the verge of genocide

Prof. Jacques Barth

Department of Cardiology of the Jeremiasz, Research Foundation in Haarlem, The Netherlands

Lethal collusion: The essential role physicians played in advancing racial hygiene policies in the Nazi era

Prof. Mildred Solomon

Harvard Medical School, USA

From the ramp to the experimental block: The fate of 100 women from the famous 20th Belgian convoy

Prof. Hans-Joachim Lang

Universität Tübingen, Germany

The SS doctor Hans Muench and his multiple injections on women prisoners in Block 10 Auschwitz

Prof. Paul Weindling

Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Creating with compassion documentary for the classroom: Horrors and polarized characters: The Girl From Salonika: Surviving Block 10

Alison Wilson

Australian filmmaker and director, Spain

Refreshment break

Investigations by the Institute of National Remembrance on medical experiments during World War II

Prof. Karol Polejowski

Institute of National Remembrance, Poland

(In)famous inventions: Medicine under the Nazis

Dr. Katarzyna du Vall

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Maternity Ward in Frauenlager in Birkenau

Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy

State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient? The meaning of hope in medicine – lessons from Auschwitz

Prof. Marta Soniewicka

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Documentary „Położna” (Midwife [in Auschwitz]) with introduction by Maria Stachurska (film director)

Refreshment break

Teaching medicine and the Holocaust

Prof. Esteban González López, Prof. Rosa Ríos-Cortes

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Medicine during the Holocaust: the lessons we have not learned

Dr. Tessa Chelouche

Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair of Bioethics, Israel

Can we learn from the Holocaust without drawing Nazi analogies?

Prof. Matthew Wynia

Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, USA

Never forget and always remember: Paradigms for the present and future of bioethics

Prof. Rebecca Brendel

Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, USA

Panel discussion

All speakers

Criminal medical experiments at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp: course, consequences and treatment attempts

Prof. Radosław Górski

Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Maria Zima-Marjańska

Institute of National Remembrance, Poland

Exploring the potential of search and identification work for war victims inside the Office of Search and Identification of the Institute of National Remembrance

Aleksandra Baryła, Angelika Słodka

Institute of National Remembrance, Poland

Investigations into medical experiments during World War II

Łukasz Gramza

Institute of National Remembrance, 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

The language of all the workshops is English only.