Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Lecture
 

Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Auschwitz-Birkenau

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

Since receiving her PhD in history from the University of Southern California, Dr. Siegel has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive and the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine. She subsequently became an assistant professor and the founding director of the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MHGS) at Cedars-Sinai. During its four-year existence, MHGS developed a reputation for outstanding interdisciplinary programming and impactful mentorship of fellows, hosting two international symposia.

Dr. Siegel has published articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Journal of Genocide Research, among other peer-reviewed journals. An adaptation of her dissertation, her monograph, Jewish Doctors in Nazi Camps: Conscription, Coercion, and Resistance During the Holocaust, 1940-1945, is slated for publication by Yale University Press in 2027. She was a member of the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust and was co-author of the eponymous report that appeared in The Lancet medical journal.

Beyond teaching undergraduates as a visiting assistant professor in the University of California Los Angeles history department, Dr. Siegel has offered courses and delivered guest lectures to a broad spectrum of learners, including graduate students, medical students, practicing physicians, medical educators, and Holocaust educators. She has presented papers and given lectures, often on invitation, in conferences and workshops held in seven countries.

Tuesday, September 22^nd at 5:30pm

BCC Dogwood Room