VOICES FROM THE GENOCIDE: TESTIMONIES AND ORAL HISTORY AS SOURCE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE HOLOCAUST

When: September 13, 2019, 9 am to 4 pm

Where: Collège des Bernardins, Grand Auditorium, 20, rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris

Reservation: To participate in the conference, please register free of charge via the following link http://tiny.cc/rawy8y or send a mail to femnm@yahadinunum.org

More information: Dr. Matthis Krischel (member of the organizing committee)

Programme

September 13, 2019 (Paris)

09.30-10.00    KEYNOTE SPEECH - Father Patrick Desbois

10.00-11.30    “New Sources – New Discoveries” 

 CHAIR Père Morin OU Père Thierry Vernet, Collège des Bernardins, France(to be confirmed)

 Maria Ciesielska, Lazarski University, Poland: Are we sure we’ve already read everything-my research while working on a book Lekarze Getta Warszawkiego (The doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto)

 Mattéo Cian, Yahad – In Unum, France: “Vampire” Camps: The use of Slavic children’s blood by German doctors

 Patrice Bensimon, Yahad - In Unum, France: “They put them some product on the lips…”, the poisoning of Jewish children by the Nazis in      occupied Soviet territories: myth or fact?

 Teresa Wontor, Auschwizt Memorial: SS Lagerarzt Alfred Trzebinski and his testimonies presented by the family members (Natalia Budzyńska’s book Children did’t cry. The history of my uncle SS doctor Alfred Trzebinski)

11.30-11.45    COFFEE BREAK

11.45-13.15    “Survivors Testimonies on Holocaust and Medicine: Specificities and Questions”

 CHAIR Albert Hytry, Yahad – In Unum, France

        Matthis Krischel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany: Autobiographical accounts of dentists in Sonderkommandos

 Astrid Ley, Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen, Germany: Testimonies by survivors of medical experiments in concentration camps

 Esther Cuerda, CITMA, Spain / Germany: Memory and Nazi Medicine: testimonies of survivors and descendants

 Miriam Offer, West Galilee College, Israel: A reexamination of testimonies of Jewish patients and medical staff, and of German physicians who were in charge of the ghetto

13.15-14.15     LUNCH BREAK

14.15-15.45  "Testimony: Evidence for Justice, Tool for Education (on Nazi Medicine)”

 CHAIR (tba)

 Esteban González, School of Medicine, Autónoma University Madrid, Spain: Using testimonies as an aid in teaching Medicine and the Holocaust

 Shmuel Reis, Hebrew University/Hadassah Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel: Bergen Belsen Liberation: How documents and my parent’s testimonies are integrated and serve Holocaust & Medicine education

Tessa Chelouche, Co-Chair UNESCO Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, Israel: Dering vs Uris: A Medical Crime goes Unpunished

Gregor Holzinger, Mathausen Memorial, Austria: Testimonies of survivors in the Dachau trials against medicine-perpetrators