Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day International Conference: “The Holocaust, Medicine and Medical Ethics”

Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research will hold an international conference “The Holocaust, Medicine and Medical Ethics” on January 24-25, 2007. The conference, held in cooperation with the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion - The Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, will take place at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies’ Branch in Givatayim, Beit Wolyn.

Scholars from Israel - representing all the universities - the United States and Germany will address Nazi medicine, Jewish physicians during the Holocaust, current educational programs on medical ethics, new research on the Holocaust and medicine and ideas for the future of medical education and ethics.

The conference will take place through the generous support of the Gertner Center of International Holocaust Conferences.