Book Chapter
Teresa Wontor-Cichy, “Medical Experiments in Auschwitz.” Auschwitz: History, Place and People. An Academic Guide to the Camp Complex. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2021, p. 123-134.
Educational Resources
- Mapping Medicine in the Camp by Herleen Sharma
- Prisoner Doctors, Ethics, and the Navigation of an Impossible Reality by Rachel Karasenty Saltoun
- The Usage of Medicine at Auschwitz by Erin Salh
Discussion Prompts
- Discuss the valor and rigor of the medical experimentation carried out in the concentration camps. Was there an attempt to gain valuable and credible knowledge?
- How were the medical crimes that took place at Auschwitz related to Nazi ideology and the goals of the Third Reich? This question can be discussed in terms of the goals of these experiments or the treatment of the victims.
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Kubica, Helena. “The Crimes of Josef Mengele.” In Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, 317–37. Bloomington: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, 1994.
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Lang, Hans-Joachim. Die Frauen von Block 10: medizinische Versuche in Auschwitz. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2011.
Strzelecka, Irena. “Experiments.” In Auschwitz 1940-1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp, edited by Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper, and Tadeusz Iwaszko, translated by William Brand, 2:347–69. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000.
Strzelecka, Irena. Medical Crimes. The Hospitals in Auschwitz. Voices of Memory 3. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2008.
