The talk by historian Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Bridgewater College has been canceled due to predicted snow and ice. A new date will be announced.
A historian for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will speak at Bridgewater College on Jan. 27.
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice will present a talk titled “Nameless Victims, Silenced Voices” at 7 p.m. in Cole Hall.
The event is free and open to the public.
Heberer Rice will discuss Nazi euthanasia and the so-called T-4 program, which claimed the lives of approximately 300,000 disabled patients living in institutional settings throughout Germany. The euthanasia program was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany in 1939. The program was one of many radical eugenic measures that aimed to ensure the racial “integrity” of the German nation. The program aimed to eliminated “life unworthy of life” due to psychiatric, neurological or physical disabilities due to the so-called drain on the financial coffers of Germany.
Heberer Rice is currently coediting “Nazi Sites for Racial Persecution, Detention, Murder and Resettlement of Non-Jews,” an upcoming volume of the museum’s “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945.” She has worked at the museum for more than three decades.
This event is sponsored by the Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation, the Kline-Bowman Institute for Peace and Justice and the Department of History and Political Science.
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