Mar 25, 2025
"In memory of the children": Exhibition on the involvement of pediatricians in Nazi crimes for the first time in Saxony
Care recipients of the Naemi-Wilke-Stift, Guben.
From April 29 to July 3, the exhibition "In Memory of Children" by the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine will be on display for the first time in Saxony, in Dresden's Dreikönigskirche. Using 24 panels, it traces the path from eugenic thinking in the 1920s to the organized killing of minors and uses specific locations to shed light on the individual fates of disabled children.
Children's clinic of the Dresden-Johannstadt.
The Institute of History of Medicine at TU Dresden has brought the exhibition to Dresden and supplemented it with four additional panels. The focus is on the role of the people of Dresden and the children's clinic of the Dresden-Johannstadt City Hospital, the predecessor of the University Hospital, during the Nazi era.
The overall view reveals the deep involvement of pediatrics in National Socialism and its racial ideology.
Pediatrician Prof. Fred Zepp (Mainz University Hospital) and medical historian Prof. Thomas Beddies (Charité Berlin) will speak at the opening of the exhibition on April 29.
Venue: Dreikönigskirche Dresden, Hauptstraße 23, 01097 Dresden
Time: 4 p.m.
The exhibition is open from April 30 to July 3, Monday to Friday from 10 am to 6 pm. Access is barrier-free. Admission is free.
Further program:
20 May, 4 p.m.: "The participation of Dresden residents in 'child euthanasia'" Lecture by Dr. Marina Lienert, Institute of History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden
June 4, 7:30 pm: Commented screening of the film "Nebel im August" (D 2016) at the Dresden Filmtheater Schauburg
June 24, 4 p.m.: "And this child, nobody wanted to have... - Midwives between valorization and use for racial hygiene and "child euthanasia?" Lecture by PD Dr. Wiebke Lisner, Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School
Parallel to the exhibition, the spring conference of the Working Group for Research into National Socialist "Euthanasia" and Forced Sterilization will take place at the Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial from 9 to 11 May.
Contact:
Anne-Stephanie Vetter
Staff Unit Public Relations Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine
of the TUD Dresden University of Technology
+49 (0) 351 458 17903
www.tu-dresden.de/med
Dr. Marina Lienert
Institute of History of Medicine
Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine
of the TUD Dresden University of Technology
+49 (0) 351 3177 405