UPCOMING EXHIBITS:

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

July 25, 2012 – October 15, 2012

Produced by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of people viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that started with the mass sterilization of “hereditarily diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race traces this history from the early 20th-century international eugenics movement to the Nazi regime’s “science of race.” It also challenges viewers to reflect on the present-day interest in genetic manipulation that promotes the possibility of human perfection.

This exhibition is sponsored locally by the Tulane School of Medicine.

Guests of the Third Reich: American POWs in Europe

November 11, 2012 – January 13, 2013

Guests of the Third Reich: American POWs in Europe will examine the diverse experiences of POW life for thousands of Americans held in captivity by the Nazis. Drawing on the Museum’s rich collection of POW artifacts, the exhibit will highlight the personal and unique stories of individuals, including oral histories from some of the “guests” of these camps. Guests of the Third Reich will also allow a glimpse inside the Museum’s seven rare POW Wartime Logs (produced by the YMCA and distributed by the Red Cross). These works, as well as select assets from the exhibit, will also be available online, offering a deeper look into everyday life inside of some of the camps.