Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of people 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 started with the mass sterilization of “hereditarily diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race traces this history from the early 20th-century international eugenics movement to the Nazi regime’s “science of race.” It also challenges viewers to reflect on the present-day interest in genetic manipulation that promotes the possibility of human perfection.
Exhibitions and events
Yikzkor Hall
Permanent exhibitionIn this hall the visitor encounters the holdings of Jewish culture that were lost in the Holocaust, as they are expressed in their existing forms: as personal papers, official documents, photographs,...
Home of Testimony
Permanent exhibitionThis exhibition tells the stories of the founders of the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz (Lohamei Haghetaot) – as a community with shared biographical characteristics, and as a collection of individual...
Camps Exhibition
Permanent exhibitionThis renewed exhibition (formerly “Hall of the Camps”) was inaugurated in October 2010 after two years of renovation, updating, and redesign. The displays concisely depict the industry that was the...
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Permanent exhibitionIn the history of humanity, no other people has stood against such a powerful force bent on its annihilation, as had the Jewish People under the Nazi occupation. Even so, the Jews did not submit to...
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