print this page  ON EXHIBIT Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Through October 16 Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story For younger visitors Online Exhibitions THE MUSEUM NEAR YOU Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust March 20 – July 31, 2005 Spertus Museum Chicago, IL 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 Through April 3 Ralph Foster Museum (College of the Ozarks) Point Lookout, MO Through April 16 Mission Mill Museum Salem, OR Fighting the Fires of Hate – America and the Nazi Book Burnings Through April 9 The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Cincinnati, OH Schindler Through May 13 Muskegon County Museum Muskegon, MI Remember the Children: Daniel's Story Through September 25 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 March 2005 This month, be a part of the conversation at one of our programs - the 2005 Season of First Person, the Insights Series, or the interactive theater performance - Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. You can also be an active participant at programs with Museum educators such as the architecture program - What Makes This Building Talk?, or Guided Tours of Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. AT THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Sunday Afternoon Tour and Film Series focusing on the special exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Sundays, March 6 and 13 1:00 p.m. - Guided Tour 2:00 p.m. - Film Screening March 6 – In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine March 13 – Leo's Journey: The Story of the Mengele Twins READ MORE First Person: Conversations with Survivors of the Holocaust Wednesday, March 9 through August 31 1 p.m. Helena Rubinstein Auditorium The Museum invites you to participate in a conversation with a Holocaust survivor. The First Person series features eyewitness accounts that unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. The 2005 season of First Person has been made possible by generous support from the Louis and Dora Smith Foundation. Insights Series Thursday, March 17, 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. A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science Dr. Leon Kass - Chairman, President’s Council on Bioethics; Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and the Addie Clark Harding Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago - engaged for more than 30 years with ethical and philosophical questions raised by biomedical advances as a physician and scientist, explores how modern science’s pursuit of “human perfection” paved the way for Nazi programs to eliminate the “unfit.” Dr. Kass will address the persistence of biological “idealism” in contemporary scientific and medical thinking. Series host 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. READ MORE Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:00 p.m. Helena Rubinstein Auditorium In 1939, Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, his young son, and wife were forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland with thousands of other Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. He realized that the actions of the Nazis and the Jews they were trying to destroy needed to be recorded so future generations would never forget. This is the story of Ringelblum and a group of men, women, and children who began a clandestine archive, gathering evidence of what was happening around them. Join actor Marc Spiegel as he portrays Emanuel Ringelbum in this interactive theater performance. This program has been made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. 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. 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