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January 2012
Saturday 7 January 2012
Sat 7 Jan. September 15, 2011 - January 7, 2012 PLACE Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Place Battery Park City New York, NY 10280, USA Details Deadly Medicine: Creating THE Master RACE Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]