Medical Experiments Question I am doing a research paper on the Holocaust. My subject is "the medical experiments on the children of the Holocaust." I would greatly appreciate it if you could supply me with any books, references, articles, essays, etc. that would help me with this project. Brian Harmon answers: I can point you to some sources that should give an introduction to the subject. The first is Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum. The two chapters authored by Helena Kubica entitled "The Crimes of Josef Mengele" and "Children" and the chapter named "Nazi Doctors" by Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett should give a good overview of what was done to children in Auschwitz. For a more thorough examination, Robert Jay Lifton wrote a book called The Nazi Doctors which also deals with the psychology of the perpetrators. Lastly, the memoirs of inmate physician Dr. Miklos Nyiszli should be particularly illuminating. Dr. Nyiszli worked directly under Dr. Mengele during his time in Auschwitz. There is another book entitled Children of the Flames which covers Mengele's use of twins for his lethal experiments in Auschwitz, I haven't read the book so I can't offer much more than the title. Hope this is some help to you, - Brian Harmon References "Nazi Doctors" by Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett. in Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp ed. by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1994. Chapter 12, pp 301-316. "The Crimes of Josef Mengele" by Helena Kubica. In ibid. Chapter 13, pp 317-362. "Children" by Helena Kubica. In ibid. Chapter 17, pp 412-427. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton. Basic Books, Inc. New York, NY, 1986. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli. Translated by Tibere Kramer. Arcade publications, 1993. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitzby Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Penguin USA, 1992. back to the list of questions
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