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Deadly Medicine: Creating the
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January 2005
Start off the New Year with a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. On weekends participate in daytime programs such as the unique architectural program entitled What Makes this Building Talk? or an interactive theater program Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Museum's new Insights program offers an opportunity to examine the issues raised in the exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race and their relevance in today's world.
AT THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
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Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto
Sunday, January 9, 2005
2:00 p.m.
Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
Created by the Museum and the Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater, this interactive performance tells the story behind the Ringelblum Archive milk can, one of the historic artifacts on display in the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
This program has been made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.
This program is free and open to the public.
Reservations are not required.
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Insights Series
Thursday, January 13, 2005
7 p.m.
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater
Join leading physicians, scientists, bioethicists, and social commentators in this new series reflecting on the Museum's latest exhibition and its relevance to our own time.
Doing Good: The Promise and the Perils of Science
The Nazis drew on the science of their day in their pursuit of "perfection" and the creation of the "master race." Dr. Ruth Faden , Director of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, explores the implications of this history in light of current medical innovations to enhance appearance and intelligence or prevent disease.
Hosted by Sara J. Bloomfield, Museum Director
Admission is free, but seating is limited. For reservations call 202-488-0407.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be open before and following the program.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
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Guided Tours – Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Tuesdays and Saturdays
Sidney Kimmel and Rena Rowan Exhibition Gallery
This thirty-minute guided tour explores the Nazis' quest to create a "master race" and to rid Germany of those who did not fit their racial ideal. Among the 200 artifacts on display are calipers used to measure racial characteristics, placards denouncing mixed marriage, posters advocating the sterilization of the "unfit" and photographs documenting the history of eugenics in the United States.
This program is free and open to the public.
Reservations are not required.
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What Makes this Building Talk?
Saturdays and Sundays
Hall of Witness
In the words of architect James Ingo Freed, the Museum's architecture is intended to be a "resonator of memory." Join Museum educators as they demonstrate how aspects of the building's structure reflect the history housed within its walls.
This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required.
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