Tag: Concentration Camps

Publication: Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge

Sep 14, 2022

By Jonathan D. Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt. Over the last 80 years, a series of critical events has led to reconsideration of the basic premises of medical ethics. One of these events was the recognition of horrific medical experiments performed by German medical scientists in World War II concentration camps, resulting in intensified emphasis on a consent … More Publication: Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge

The Trial against Irmgard Furchner, former secretary and stenographer in the Stutthof concentration camp (1943-45)

Mar 10, 2022

By Manuel Bolz and Marie Panten An excursion to Itzehoe On 19 October 2021, our alarm clock rang at 4:00 a.m. The reason for our early wake-up call was to attend the start of the trial by the Itzehoe Regional Court against 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary and stenographer at the concentration camp Stutthof. … More The Trial against Irmgard Furchner, former secretary and stenographer in the Stutthof concentration camp (1943-45)

Online Lecture – Probing power dynamics: relations between female medical staff in Ravensbrück concentration camp

Feb 16, 2022

An online lecture to be given by Dr. Kate Docking for the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for History, Culture and Memory and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association.  This lecture will examine the relationships between individual female medical staff and prisoner infirmary workers at Ravensbrück concentration camp, an institution designated to intern women deemed racially, politically … More Online Lecture – Probing power dynamics: relations between female medical staff in Ravensbrück concentration camp