JANUARY 21 • 2021 | 19

T

he Holocaust Memorial
Center will host How
Healers Became Killers:
Nazi Medical Professionals,
to commemorate Holocaust
Remembrance Day, Wednesday,
Jan. 27. The program also
is the opening event of the
new featured exhibit, Deadly
Medicine: Creating the Master
Race, which opens Jan. 17 and
runs through July 11, 2021.
“This thought-provoking
exhibit and opening program
scrutinizes the role medical
professionals had in the
Holocaust,
” said HMC CEO
Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. “The most
important lesson we teach is that
history is made through a series
of choices and that every choice
has a consequence. By teaching
the lessons of the Holocaust,
our fervent hope is that each
of us will be upstanders, not
bystanders, when we witness
wrongful actions.
”
On Wednesday, Jan. 27, at
7 p.m., How Healers Became
Killers: Nazi Medical Professionals
will address the integral
role medical professionals
played in the planning and
implementation of Nazi racial

policy. The online program
features Dr. Patricia Heberer-
Rice, senior historian from
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, who will discuss
how medical professionals
enforced policies of compulsory
sterilization, as well as the
“euthanasia” program. Register at
www.holocaustcenter.org/events/
upcoming-events/.

NEW EXHIBIT
Produced by the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, the traveling
exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating
the Master Race examines
how the Nazi leadership, in
collaboration with medical
professionals, used science to
help legitimize persecution,
murder and genocide.
Through reproductions of
photographs and documents,
films and survivor testimony,
the exhibit traces how the
persecution of groups deemed
biologically inferior led to the
near annihilation of European
Jewry. It also challenges viewers
to reflect on the present-day
interest in genetic manipulation
that promotes the possibility of
human perfection.

Holocaust Remembrance Day
online program and exhibit.

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‘Deadly Medicine’
And Nazi Doctors

BLINDEN-MUSEUM AN DER JOHANN-AUGUST-ZEUNE-SCHULE FUR BLINDE, BERLIN

Students at the
Berlin School
for the Blind
examine racial
head models circa
1935. Students
were taught Gregor
Mendel’s principles
of inheritance
and the purported
application of those
laws to human
heredity and
principles of race.

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How Healers
Became Killers
Nazi Medical Professionals

7
pm Wednesday
January 27

Join Dr. Patricia Heberer-Rice
from the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
at the virtual exhibit-opening
program for Deadly Medicine
Creating the Master Race.

Register at www.holocaustcenter.org/January

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER
ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS
248.553.2400

International Holocaust
Remembrance Day Program

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