Medicine & the Holocaust: Community Seminar & Film Series

An award-winning documentary, “In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine,” examining how medical doctors contributed to the Holocaust, will be shown at 5 p.m. in the Gandhi Auditorium of White Hall. The film was produced and directed by John Michalczyk, Ph.D., professor and director of film studies at Boston College.

Felix Weil, a Holocaust survivor who was put on the Kindertransport as a child, never to see his family again, will give a talk following the film.

Following the talk, medical students will discuss the topic "Should we use Pernkopf's anatomy atlas?" The seven-volume atlas produced by artists who were ardent Nazis is considered a scientific and artistic masterpiece, but it has been surrounded by controversy over the question of whether some of the figures shown in the paintings were Holocaust victims.

The program is part of the medical school's Medicine & the Holocaust Community Seminar and Film Series and is an outgrowth of the Medicine and the Holocaust course for fourth-year students at the Boonshoft School of Medicine. The program is free and open to the public.