Memoria [EN] No. 93 | Page 5

Program:

Preconference visit

15 September 2025 (Monday)

A special guided tour of the Auschwitz Memorial including areas not available to the public, including Block 10 with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lang.

Conference

16 September 2025 (Tuesday)

9:00–9:30

Welcome address

Piotr Gajewski (Poland)

Keynote speech

Leon Weintraub (Sweden) – Guest of Honor, survivor of Nazi German concentration camps

Session I

9:30-10:10

Opening lecture: Physician leadership in Nazi euthanasia and sterilization campaigns: How did it go so wrong? What can we learn?

Mildred Solomon (Harvard Medical School, USA)

10:10-10:30

Nazi medical crimes: Escalation of racist ideology, economic rationality, or crimes of opportunity?

Thorsten Wagner (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, USA)

10:30-10:50

Nazi medical crimes, professional interests, and economy: The origins of the Declaration of Helsinki

Volker Roelcke (Institute of the History of Medicine, Giessen University, Germany)

10:50-11:10

Research as a tool to protect vulnerable populations: Lessons learned from the Declaration of Helsinki

Karla Childers (Head of bioethics at Johnson & Johnson, USA)

11:10-11:30

Panel discussion

11:30-11:50 Refreshment break

Session II

11:50-12:10

Electroconvulsive therapy in Auschwitz: Medical innovation and human experimentation

Herwig Czech (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)

12:10-12:30

“…This would serve for the benefit of the whole family…”. Brain research on the victims of child euthanasia in Lower Silesia

Kamila Uzarczyk (Medical University of Wrocław, Poland)

12:30-12:50

Hygiene Institut der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz O/S: What do we know about the main laboratory in KL Auschwitz

Teresa Wontor-Cichy (State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland)

12:50-13:10

From Jan Sehn to the Institute of National Remembrance: Criminal medicine in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in historical research and prosecution proceedings

Filip Gańczak (Institute of National Remembrance, Poland)

13:10-13:30

Panel discussion

Session III

14:00-14:20

On dealing with guilt: The difficult path of confronting the Nazi euthanasia crimes from 1945 to the present day

Michael von Cranach (Germany)

14:20-14:40

Confronting eugenics and scientific racism

Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

14:40-15:00

Suffering and the moral orientation of presence

Jay R. Malone (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)

15:00-15:20

Legal and ethical dilemmas of Nazi eugenic propaganda online in an age of disinformation

Katarzyna du Vall (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

15:20-15:40

Teaching professional ethics against the backdrop of Nazi medicine: Potentials, challenges, best practice

Thorsten Wagner (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, USA)

15:40-16:00

Panel discussion

Workshops

17 September 2025 (Wednesday)

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