Beyond the classroom: Horrors of Holocaust sites shape future medical professionals

Over four days in Poland, fellows selected by the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus confronted the crimes of the Holocaust, focusing on those perpetrated by medical professionals. They wandered silently through gloomy spaces where Nazi doctors experimented on prisoners. They saw tangled piles of human hair, discarded shoes and a gas chamber where tens of thousands had been murdered.