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which will be held in Kraków on May 9, 2018. The conference is being organized by TLK and Medycyna Praktyczna publishers, in co-operation with the Jagiellonian University and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum at Oświęcim. The conference is on the medical, psychological and social consequences of the repressive measures practiced in the Nazi German concentration camps. It is primarily addressed to the international medical community, because it will carry a message of fundamental importance for contemporary medical ethics. Its organizers hope it will help the international community develop a better understanding of the sinister chapter contributed to the history of medicine by the Nazi German concentration camps - a chapter which should be a lesson for future generations.
Roman Niewiarowicz has said that in the concentration camps medicine literally entered in articulo mortis (at the point of death).
doctors, both those who were held as prisoners in the camps and those who were functionaries in them.7 As a scientific journal, PL-O is in a class of its own worldwide. The Senate of the Republic of Poland has nominated it on two occasions for the Nobel Peace prize (1993 and 1994).
The Current 'Medical Review - Auschwitz' Project
On the initiative of Professor Zdzisław J. Ryn, Professor Igor Gościński (the current President of TLK), and Dr. Piotr Gajewski (Chief Editor of Medycyna Praktyczna), we have launched a project to make all the volumes of PL-O accessible worldwide in English translation. The 'Medical Review - Auschwitz' Project, with a website at www.mp.pl/auschwitz, has become a reality thanks to the commitment of TLK, Medycyna Praktyczna publishers, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum at Oświęcim, and financial support granted by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Adam Bak Foundation from the USA. We are successively putting the English versions of more and more PL-O articles on the website. The project also entails the First International Conference on Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire,