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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