print this page  ON EXHIBIT Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Through October 16 Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story For our younger visitors CLOSING FOR RENOVATIONS: The exhibition will be closed for renovations from February 14-28, 2005. The Museum has received a grant from Target to undertake a major refurbishment of the exhibition. Online Exhibitions THE MUSEUM NEAR YOU Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945 Through March 5 Urban Culture Project, with the Kansas City Jewish Museum Kansas City, KS Varian Fry, Assignment Rescue: 1940 – 1941 February 4 – April 16 Mission Mill Museum Salem, OR Fighting the Fires of Hate – America and the Nazi Book Burnings February 13 – April 9 The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Cincinnati, OH Schindler February 14 – May 13 Muskegon County Museum Muskegon, MI Remember the Children: Daniel's Story February 17 – September 24 Roberson Museum and Science Center Binghamton, NY Full Traveling Exhibitions Calendar l       i       n       k       s INSIDE THE MUSEUM Become a Member Volunteer Opportunities Group Visits Accessibility Museum Café Full Public Programs EVENT Calendar EVENT Calendar EVENT Calendar February 2005 Spend a thought-provoking day at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at one of our special programs including the Insights Series and the Saturday Afternoon Tour and Film Series which focus on the exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race or join General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the U.N. peacekeeping forces during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as he discuss his memoir, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Let an educator be your guide through the Museum's architecture in the What Makes This Building Talk? program or through a guided tour of the Deadly Medicine exhibition. AT THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM General Roméo Dallaire Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda Friday, February 4, 2005 2:00 p.m. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater General Romeo Dallaire, who commanded the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, discusses his memoir, Shake Hands with the Devil, which has just been published in the United States. This program is free and open to the public. For reservations: 202.488.0407 READ MORE Insights Series Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:00 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. Progress and Evil Difficult and divisive issues dominate current discussions about scientific research and its applications. Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of The New Republic, reflects on how the history presented in Deadly Medicine can help inform contemporary debate about the complex moral and social issues associated with scientific and technological advances. In conversation with Terry Moran, ABC News 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. READ MORE Sunday Afternoon Tour and Film Series Focusing on the special exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Sundays, February 20 through March 13 1:00 p.m. - Guided Tour 2:00 p.m. - Film Screening February 20 – Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich February 27 – Liebe Perla March 6 – In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine March 13 – Leo's Journey: The Story of the Mengele Twins READ MORE 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. CHECK FOR DATES AND TIMES 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. CHECK FOR DATES AND TIMES If you would like to be removed from this list, please click here.