Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Auschwitz-Birkenau at Barone Campus Center

The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies will present a lecture titled “Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Auschwitz-Birkenau” on Tuesday, September 22, at 5:30 pm in the Dogwood Room at the Barone Campus Center.

Sari Siegel, PhD, will lead the presentation. Siegel is an expert on Nazi medicine and the history of Jewish physicians during the Holocaust. She is a visiting scholar at the Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California Los Angeles.

Siegel earned her PhD in history from the University of Southern California and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive and the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine. She later served as an assistant professor and founding director of the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Cedars-Sinai, where she helped develop interdisciplinary programming and mentorship for fellows, including two international symposia.

The lecture will take place in the Dogwood Room at the Barone Campus Center. Additional information is available at the Fairfield University event page.