Shoah survivor to speak on Nazi doctors-snip-
Bioethics topic of March 6 Maimonides Society gathering
A child survivor of the Holocaust who went on to become a physician and professor at the UCLA School of Medicine will discuss "Nazi Medical Research and Bioethics" at the March 6 gathering of the Maimonides Society.
Dr. Alfred Pasternak will speak to Portland-area health care professionals at a dinner meeting at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center.
Pasternak is the author of "Inhuman Research, Medical Experiments in German Concentration Camps."-snip-The Hungarian Academy of Sciences Web site (www.mta.hu) reports that Pasternak said he wrote the book "to erect a memorial to his loved ones, 96 in all, whom he had lost in the Holocaust, … as well as (to) warn the medical profession about the ease with which doctors could lose their bearings amid inhuman principles gaining ground around them." [emphasis mine]
This Holocaust survivor seems to understand the lessons of The Holocaust, and the meaning of "never again."