Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The
Perpetrators and Their Victims offers a historical
examination of fertility experiments conducted by
the Nazis. This dissertation tells the story of both
the victims and perpetrators, often in their own
words.
Drawing on material that has only recently become
available, this dissertation emphasizes the
subjective dimension of fertility experiments by
focusing on how the victims experienced the
procedures and on how the perpetrators justified
their crimes.
Through in-depth analysis of testimonies made over
the last 60 years from witness statements at the
Nuremberg Doctors Trial in 1947 to statements made
for compensation programs such as the Claims
Conference s recently closed Fund for Victims of
Medical Experiments and Other Injuries, as well
interviews conducted specifically for this
dissertation Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-
Birkenau aims to portray the life of the victims
and perpetrators of Nazi fertility experiments
during and after Auschwitz.

Autorentext
Ruth Jolanda Weinberger received a doctorate in history from the University of Vienna. She is the former assistant director of a fund for victims of medical experiments at the Claims Conference, where she has worked since 2000. She has also served as a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Studies.

Klappentext
"Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Perpetrators and Their Victims" offers a historical examination of fertility experiments conducted by the Nazis. This dissertation tells the story of both the victims and perpetrators, often in their own words. Drawing on material that has only recently become available, this dissertation emphasizes the subjective dimension of fertility experiments by focusing on how the victims experienced the procedures and on how the perpetrators justified their crimes. Through in-depth analysis of testimonies made over the last 60 years - from witness statements at the Nuremberg Doctors Trial in 1947 to statements made for compensation programs such as the Claims Conference's recently closed Fund for Victims of Medical Experiments and Other Injuries, as well interviews conducted specifically for this dissertation - "Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz- Birkenau" aims to portray the life of the victims and perpetrators of Nazi fertility experiments during and after Auschwitz.