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Following the very successful First International Scholars Workshop on Medicine After the Holocaust, hosted by CMATH in Houston, TX, USA last March, we are honored to announce the second international workshop, which will take place at Western Galilee College, Akko, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, and the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Safed, Israel, from Sunday May 7th through Thursday May 11th 2017.A preliminary program and call for submissions will be available in March 2016.Mark your calendars. We hope to see you all in northern Israel in May 2017.

The International Institute for Holocaust Research

Save the DateThe Second International Scholars Workshop

Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond May | 7-11 | 2017 | Western Galilee, Israel

Prof. Shmuel Reis, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Safed, Israel, Conference Chair, and the workshop’s organizing committee: Prof. Shaul Shasha (Galilee Medical Center), Dr. Miriam O�er and Dr. Boaz Cohen (The Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College, Akko),Yad Vashem (The International Institute for Holocaust Research), Mrs. Raya Kalisman (Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Lohamei Hagetaot), Prof. Nachman Ash & Prof. Jacob Sosna (IMA), Dr Eytan Lepicard (Ashkelon College and “Korot”), Prof. Nadav Davidovitch (Ben Gurion University), Dr. Tessa Chelouche (Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion), Dr. Esteban González López (School of Medicine. Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain), DR. Herwig Czech (Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance & Department of Contemporary History History , Viena University, Austria) , Dr. Esther Cuerda (Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorn, Madrid, Spain). We will shortly be contacting overseas and Israeli colleagues to form the international scienti�c committee of the conference.