By Myriam Brenner, FSWC Education Program Coordinator

Around 250,000 people (including children) with disabilities were murdered during the Second World War because they did not fit the Nazi ideal of a “pure race.” Medical professionals failed to protect their patients and instead took the lives of all those victims who suffered from mental or physical disability.

The following conversation between Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian and Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a comprehensive discussion remembering the Nazis’ first victims of mass murder.

Disability Awareness Month: Remembering the Nazis’ First Victims of Mass Murder

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