Schedule for Thursday July 4th
15:30 – 16:45: Tea and Coffee in the Trap Room
17:00 – 19:00 Introductory Session: Victims as Populations
Chair: Volker Roelcke (University of Giessen)
Paul Weindling – Anna von Villiez – Aleksandra Loewenau (Oxford Brookes University) – Nichola Farron (Amsterdam): Researching Experiment Victims - Findings and Problems
Sabine Hildebrandt (Harvard University, Massachusetts): Current Status of Identification of Victims of the National Socialist Regime whose Bodies were used for Anatomical Purposes
19:15 – 21:15: Reception/Buffet Dinner in Wadham Hall
Schedule for Friday July 5th
9:00 – 10:30 First Session: Concentration Camp Research
Chair: Ryan Farrell (Oxford Brookes University)
Astrid Ley (Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum): Children as Victims of Medical Experiments. Why were Experiments made on Children in Concentration Camps?
Raphael Toledano (Struthof Museum, Schirmeck): Deliveries of Dead Bodies at the Anatomical Institute of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg between 1941 and 1944
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee in the Trap Room
11:00 – 12:30 Anne Sudrow (Centre for Contemporary Historical Research, Potsdam): Industrial Research in Concentration Camps – an Understudied Field of Nazi Human Experiments
Andreas Frewer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg): Research in Slave Labour-Camps during National Socialism
Round Table Discussion: Evaluating Concentration Camp Research
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch in Wadham Hall
14:00 – 18:00 Second Session: Problematic Locations – Transnistria and Romanian Backgrounds
Chair: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
Paul Shapiro (USHMM, Washington DC): Vapniarka: A Special Camp with Special Sources
Vladimir Solonari (University of Central Florida): Fighting Typhus – Killing Jews: On Relations between Modern Science and Mass Murder in Romania-occupied South Ukraine, 1941-1942
15:30 – 16:00: Tea in the Trap Room
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine (Paris): Mass killings of Jews in Ukraine (1941-1944): the Involvement of the Local Population as a Kind of Nazi Human Experimentation
Round Table: Transnistria, Romania, and Other Problematic Locations
20:30 Dinner at the Cherwell Boathouse
II
“Reassessing Nazi Psychiatric and Brain Anatomical Research, 1933-1945: New Findings, Interpretations and Concepts”
Schedule for Saturday July 6th
9:00 – 10:30 First Session: Psychiatric Experiments and Eugenics
Chair: Sheldon Rubenfeld (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston)
Maike Rotzoll (University of Heidelberg) and Gerrit Hohendorf (Technical University of Munich): Medical Research on the Victims of “Euthanasia” – Carl Schneider and the Heidelberg “Research Children” 1942-1945
Hans-Walter Schmuhl (University of Bielefeld): Ernst Rüdin’s Recommendations on Psychiatric-neurological Research during the War (1942)
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee in the Trap Room
11:00 – 12:30 Second Session: Use of the Psychiatric Hospital Patients for Medical Experiments
Herwig Czech (University of Vienna): Beyond Spiegelgrund and Berkatit: Human Experimentation and Coerced Research at Vienna University, 1939 to 1945
Kamilla Uzarczyk (Medical University of Wrocław): “Der Kinderfachabteilung vorzuschlagen”: Psychological examination of children at the Jugendpsychiatrische Klinik Loben
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch in Wadham Hall
14:00 – 16:00 Third Session: From Ghetto Research to Postwar Testimony
Chair: Sabine Hildebrandt (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Margit Berner (Natural History Museum, Vienna): A Racial study of Jewish families in Tarnow, 1942
Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University): The Bond of Complicity: Reading Miklós Nyiszli's Memoirs
15:30 – 16:00: Tea in the Trap Room
16:00 – 19:00 Fourth Session: Reading Memoirs, Testimonies and Compensation Claims
Chair: Sari Siegel (University of Southern California)
Christian Bonah (University Strasbourg) and Florian Schmaltz (MPIWG, Berlin): From Witness to Inditee : Eugen Haagen and his Hearings from the Nuremberg Military Tribunal (1947) to the Struthof Medical Trials (1952/1954)
Rakefet Zalashik (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva): The Testimonies of Israeli Victims/Survivors: Specific Characteristics and Historical Values
20:00: Dinner at the Head of the River
Schedule for Sunday July 7th
9:00 – 12:30 First Session: From Survivor Testimony to Research Ethics
Michal Simunek (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Informed Testimonies: Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps In the Reports of Physicians-Prisoners from Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989
Gabriele Moser (University of Heidelberg): Ordinary Ethics: The Practice of X-Ray-/Radium-Sterilization in Nazi Germany and Associated Medical Scientific Research
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee in the Trap Room
Volker Roelcke (University of Giessen): Regulating Human Subjects Research: Scope, Limitations, and post-WW II Negotiations on the Research Guidelines/ Reichsrichtlinien of 1931
Concluding Discussion: Unresolved Issues and our Further Research