Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day Talk: Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Talk: Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice
When: Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cole Hall
Notes: This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will give a talk entitled “Nameless Victims, Silenced Voices: A Profile of Victims of the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Program,” 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. 

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.