Tribute to Robert Waitz
Sunday 24 September 2017 at 2:30 PM
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Robert Waitz is a professor of medicine in Strasbourg. In 1943, he was arrested as a resistant but deported as a Jew to Auschwitz. In charge of external consultations at the Sickness Bureau, he mainly devotes himself to helping a large number of deportees who will testify. After the «Death Marches» that led him to Buchenwald, he gathered evidence of the inoculation of typhus in healthy individuals by the SS. In 1946, he will testify at the Nuremberg trial.
In the presence of Francine Waitz, daughter of Robert Waitz, Robert Wajcman, survivor, Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for the development of places of memory and external projects, Shoah Memorial, and Georges Hauptmann, professor of medicine, University of Strasbourg.
Led by Denis Peschanski, historian, research director, CNRS.
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