DIALOGFORUM
MAUTHAUSEN 2022
Physicians imprisoned in the camps risked their own lives to contain epidemics, procure medicine and save prisoners from death; nurses struggled to care for sick fellow prisoners under the most difficult conditions; Allied medical personnel treated the sick after the liberation of the camps.
The 13th Dialogue Forum Mauthausen „Holocaust and Nazi Medicine: Victims, Perpetrators, Rescuers.” will give national and international scholars a forum to present and discuss their research findings on the Holocaust and Nazi medicine. In lectures, workshops and guided tours held over two days, speakers, professionals in the field and others with an interest in the conference topic will, as usual, exchange ideas and have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the subject.
The Dialogue Forum Mauthausen is an annual event at which an interested public is invited to follow the lectures and take part in the discussions.
This year’s Dialogue Forum Mauthausen will take place from 16 to 17 September 2022 as an attendance-based event at the Mauthausen Memorial; the conference language this year will be English.
For the 13th Dialogue Forum the Mauthausen Memorial has not only brought together international experts on the subject of medicine and the Holocaust, but is also pleased to welcome the Israeli film-maker Itamar Wexler, who will present his documentary The Voyage at an exclusive Austrian premiere on the evening of 16 September in Linz. Tickets can be obtained in advance and from the box office on the night.
Titles of panels:
Holocaust in academic Medicine
Medicine in Mauthausen-Gusen
Spanish Republicans and International Brigades
Medical Staff: Aid workers, Perpetrators and Liberators
The forum will end with the discussion titled „COVID, antisemitic movements and Holocaust comparisons”
See details of the Dialogforum Mauthausen 2022
Medicine is a subject that is inextricably linked with the history of Nazi concentration camps – and by extension the Holocaust: Nazi doctors used concentration camp prisoners for experiments and on the basis of selection procedures decided who would be murdered and who would be allowed to live so that their labour could be exploited.
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