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Power for Life or Power for Death? How and Why Science and Religion Can Work Together for Life After the Holocaust

President, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation Rabbi Greenberg—rabbi, scholar and former Chairman of the United States Holocaust...

Distinguished Speaker Videos

Interview of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, May 16, 2008

Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon; developed the mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) units and established the Veteran’s Administration...

Distinguished Speaker Videos

Granddaughter of Nazis Dr. Franziska Eckert and Survivor Riki Roussos

Dr. Franziska Eckert is the granddaughter of devout Nazi who has confronted her family history in two ways. Together with other church...

Films

Radical Evil: 2013 Film Deconstructs Psychology of Nazi Killers

Streaming film directed by Stephen Rosewitzki | Austria / Germany / 2013 | 96 minutes | English, German, Ukrainian | Hebrew subtitles....

Films

Recently Viewed Films

I recently watched four films with relevance to medicine and the Holocaust: The Architecture of Doom, which indicates that half of the...

Films

Remember

Remember is a film about two elderly men living in an assisted living facility: Max has physical impairments and Zev has worsening...

Films

American Eugenics

As unfamiliar as most people are with Nazi eugenics, they are even less familiar with American eugenics. American eugenicists provided...

Student Perspectives

The Selective Memory of Bioethics by C. Cody Miller

First and second year Baylor College of Medicine students enrolled in Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich are required to...

Student Perspectives

A Medical Student's Personal Reflections on Eugenics by Zach Solomon

Eugenics and euthanasia are discussed at length in the Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich elective I teach to first and...

Student Perspectives

Operation Paperclip, and Essay by Medical Student Elizabeth Adams

German doctors and scientists were perhaps the best in the world prior to WWII. Despite their immoral behavior during the Third Reich,...

Student Perspectives

Genetics and Modern Eugenics by Medical Student Amanda Broderick

Few people realize that eugenics was the driving force behind the Nazis’ political philosophy of “Applied Biology.” Even fewer realize...

Student Perspectives

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Medical Student Varun Bora

Robert Proctor was widely acclaimed for his 1988 book Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. He did not receive similar acclaim for...

Student Perspectives

Personal Prejudices in Medicine by Medical Student Katherine French

In my Baylor College of Medicine elective Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich, students struggle with their newly...

Student Perspectives

The Influence of Healthcare Policy on Patient Care by Medical Student Maya Firsowicz

The medical profession’s status and its attitudes about patient care usually result from a negotiation between physicians, culture, and...

Student Perspectives

Euthanasia, Abortion, & the Death Penalty by Medical Student Jessica Tran

The content of the Healing by Killing: Medicine During the Third Reich elective is very stimulating for the first- and second-year...

Student Perspectives

The Making of a Modern Frankenstein by Medical Student Monika Pyarali

In his quest for a master race, Hitler has been compared to Mary Shelley’s creation Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Inspired by eugenics and...

Curricula

Medical Ethics and the Holocaust

Dr David Brenner is Visiting Asst. Professor and Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Humanities, and Honors at University of Houston and...

Interviews

Vivien Spitz, Interview II

Vivien Spitz worked as Chief Reporter of Debates in the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1982 and reported the...

Interviews

Traute Lafrenz, Interview I

Traute Lafrenz is a German-American physician and anthroposophist, who was a member of the White Rose anti-Nazi group during World War...

Interviews

Traute Lafrenz, Interview II

Traute Lafrenz is a German-American physician and anthroposophist, who was a member of the White Rose anti-Nazi group during World War...

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