The conference co-organised by the Jagiellonian University and Krakow Medical Society will cover a variety of topics related to medicine in concentration camps.

The conference will be held under the honorary auspices of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University Prof. Wojciech Nowak and the President of the Supreme Medical Council Maciej Hamankiewicz,

Programme:

9.00-9.30   Welcome address

9.30-9.50   Medical Review – Auschwitz: the concept and its creators*
Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn
Jagiellonian University, Poland

9.50-10.10   Selections carried out by SS doctors in the hospitals of the Auschwitz concentration camp*
Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

10.10-10.30   Nazi German physicians: the antithesis of humanitarian medicine
Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki
Jagiellonian University, Poland

10.30-10.50   Block 10: the experimental block in the women’s camp at Auschwitz*
Dr. Maria Ciesielska
Lazarski University, Poland

10.50-11.10   Pseudo-medical experiments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp: a survivor’s story*
Dr. Wanda Półtawska
Poland

11.10-11.30   Ethical transgressions in anatomical science during the Third Reich: the trace to Auschwitz
Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt
Harvard University, USA

11.30-12.00   Coffee break

12.00-12.20   The evolution of the KZ-syndrome through the generations*
Prof. Zdzisław Jan Ryn
Jagiellonian University, Poland

12.20-12.40   Assistance dispensed to Auschwitz survivors in 1945 by Polish doctors and medical personnel*
Dr. Jacek Lachendro
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

12.40-13.00   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

13.00-14.00   Panel discussion

* Lecture in Polish translated simultaneously into English.