Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will speak at Bridgewater College on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Her talk, “Nameless Victims, Silenced Voices: A Profile of Victims of the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Program,” will be at 7 p.m. in Cole Hall and is free and open to the public.
Heberer Rice will speak about 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 and in areas annexed.
Heberer Rice holds a Ph.D. in German and central European history from the University of Maryland College Park and has worked at the Museum since 1994. She serves as a specialist on medical crimes and eugenics policies in Nazi Germany, educates groups inside and outside the Museum, and vets a wide range of Museum content for historical accuracy. Heberer Rice is currently coediting “Nazi Sites for Racial Persecution, Detention, Murder, and Resettlement of Non-Jews,” a forthcoming volume of the Museum’s “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945.”
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.
Media Contact:
Heather Cole
Editor & Director of Media Relations
hcole@bridgewater.edu
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