A thought-provoking exhibition and related programs
in the Boston area examining the complicity of physicians
and scientists in the Nazi program
In the 1920s and early 1930s, Germany was a young democracy. In a relatively short time afterward, the Nazis assumed power, launched World War II, and carried out the watershed events now known as the Holocaust. Many German physicians and scientists, including world leaders in their fields, willingly lent support to the Nazi ideology and helped legitimize and implement the regime’s policies that culminated in the Holocaust. How was this possible in an educated and civilized society?
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has produced the special exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race to explore this question and its implications for our world today.
Partners
- American Association of Holocaust Survivors of Greater Boston, Inc.
- American Jewish Committee, Boston Office
- American Jewish Historical Society, Boston
- American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
- Andover Newton Theological School
- Atrius Health Foundation
- Dedham Medical Associates
- Granite Medical
- Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
- Southboro Medical Group
- South Shore Medical Center
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
- Boston 3G
- Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing
- Boston Jewish Connection
- The Boston Jewish Film Festival
- Boston Medical Center
- Boston Medical Library
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Boston University School of Public Health
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston
- Children’s Hospital
- Ethics Advisory Committee
- College of the Holy Cross
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies
- Congregation Mishkan Tefila
- Congregation Sha' aray Shalom
- Curry College Division of Nursing
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Emerson College School of the Arts
- Facing History and Ourselves
- The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University
- Generations After, Inc.
- Hadassah the Women’s Zionist Organization
- Harvard Medical School
- Center for the History of Medicine
- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
- The Division of Medical Ethics
- The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
- Harvard School of Dental Medicine
- Harvard School of Public Health
- François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
- Harvard University
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
- Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society
- The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Bioethics and Biotechnology
- Hebrew College
- Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
- Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Boston
- Jewish National Fund New England
- Lahey Clinic
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hillel
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Metro-West Medical Center
- The National Center for Jewish Film
- New Center for Arts and Culture
- New England Holocaust Memorial
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- Northeastern University
- Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences
- Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)
- Russian Jewish Community Foundation
- Simmons College School of Health Sciences
- South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth
- St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
- Temple Beth Elohim
- Temple Israel of Boston
- Tufts University Medical Center
- University of Massachusetts Boston - College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture
Exhibition Committee
- Dr. Julian Aroesty
- Bette Ann Libby and David Begelfer
- Dr. Barry and Susan Benjamin
- Dr. Nathan and Robin Birnbaum
- Dr. Irving and Gloria Fox
- Dr. Samuel and Reevve Goldhaber
- Dr. Norton and Joan Greenberger
- Dr. Kenneth and Ruthanne Grundfast
- Dr. Warren Hershman
- Drs. Abby and Mark Hornstein
- Dr. Aubrey and Roleen Katz
- Mindy and Irving Kempner
- Elaine Kirshenbaum
- Ronni Sachs Kotler
- Dr. Lisa Soleymani Lehmann
- Valerie and Arnie Lowenstein
- Dr. Ronald Marcus
- Dr. Frederick Millham
- Bonnie and Jonathan Rotenberg
- Dr. David and Renee Rudolph
- Dr. Harold and Milly Solomon
- Dr. Norman and Ruth Spack
- Susan and Joe Stone
Special Exhibition
Deadly Medicine:
Creating the Master Race
April 14, 2011 - July 17, 2011
At the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Hours: M-F 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat and Sun 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Closed May 31 and July 4.
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This exhibition is presented in partnership with Harvard Medical School.
