Dr. David Arolianski treats a patient in his clinic in the Kovno ghetto. He was killed in a bunker during the ghetto’s liquidation in 1944. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin
Some doctors, nurses, and scientists—including Jews who were Nazi targets themselves—risked their safety to care for those being persecuted during the Holocaust. Museum historians will examine how frontline health workers responded to starvation, trauma, and the spread of disease in ghettos and camps during the war.
Speaker
Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Moderator
Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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