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Medical Ethics and the Holocaust
How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination
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September 7, 2007 through February 3, 2008
Mincberg Gallery, Holocaust Museum Houston |
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Before the Nazis made murder efficient in the gas chambers, there first were the unspeakable “mercy deaths” to purge Germany of its population with cognitive and developmental disabilities. Code-named "Operation T4," the street address of the Berlin headquarters, Tiergartenstraße 4, from September 1939 until August 1941, German and Austrian medical institutions executed many of Germany’s most vulnerable citizens. This campaign and the “wild euthanasia” program that followed resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 individuals.
This HMH-curated exhibition will provide historical documentation of the role played by scientists, physicians and government officials and will describe activities at the killing centers of Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg and Hadamar.
The public is invited to a free preview reception at 6 p.m., September 6, 2007.
Exhibit and Catalogue Sponsors
Gateway Logistics Group, Inc.
Lufthansa Airlines
Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld and Linda Rubenfeld
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Exhibit Catalogues Available Now
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 The prison building in Brandenburg, used for "euthanasia" killings in 1940. Courtesy: Museum in Frey-Haus, Brandenburg |
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| Hadamar killing center, as smoke rises from the crematorium. Courtesy, Gedenkstätte Hadamar |
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| Gas chamber of the killing institution Pirna-Sonnenstein. Courtesy, Gedenkstätte Pirna-Sonnenstein, photographer Juergen Loesel |
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