T4 Medical Program
Return to Victims | Witnesses T4 Medical Killing Program The camouflage organization created for the medical killing of adults was known as the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes (Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten, or RAG). It operated from the Berlin Chancellery, at Tiergarten 4, hence the “T4” code name. In time, word of…
Learn About Yad Vashem’s International Conference on Holocaust Education
|| Return to Cybrary || Yad Vashem’s International Conference on Holocaust Education This conference was held October 14-17, 1996 at Yad Vashem in Israel. Visit Yad Vashem’s Site and Learn About the Conference We hope to have a report from the conference submitted soon. We encourage teachers and students to share their viewpoints, needs, problems,…
Gypsies in Auschwitz
Return to Victims | Witnesses Gypsies in Auschwitz “For Nazi Germany the Gypsies became a racist dilemma. The Gypsies were Aryans, but in the Nazi mind there were contradictions between what they regarded as the superiority of the Aryan race and their image of the Gypsies… At a conference held in Berlin on January 30,…
Gypsies in Auschwitz Part 2
Return to Victims | Witnesses Gypsies in Auschwitz Part 2 “Gypsies were officially defined as non-Aryan by the Nuremberg laws of 1935, which also first defined Jews; both groups were forbidden to marry Germans. Gypsies were later labeled as asocials by the 1937 Laws against Crime, regardless of whether they had been charged with any…
