“Auschwitz: Investigations and Legacies” with Dr. Alex Kor and Stacy Gallin
Fri, Feb 20
|Vanderbilt University


Time & Location
Feb 20, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Vanderbilt University , 2201 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
About the event
The daylong educational conference will examine Auschwitz through historical, ethical, and survivor-family perspectives, with sessions designed for educators, students, and community members.
Featured speakers include two national voices in Holocaust education and ethics:
Dr. Stacy Gallin, a leading expert on biomedical ethics and Nazi medicine, founder and director of the Benjamin Ferencz Institute for Ethics, Human Rights and the Holocaust, and co-editor of Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights. She also teaches an international course on ethics, human rights, and the Holocaust through the Global Network for Medical, Health Professions and Bioethics Education, where she serves as co-chair of education.
Dr. Alex Kor, son of Holocaust survivors Mickey and Eva Kor—Eva Kor is known worldwide as one of the “Mengele Twins” and the founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center—an Indiana-based…