Holocaust Center hosting program on Nazi treatment of disabled

FALL RIVER – Dr. Michael Grodin, Boston University director of medical ethics and human rights, will host a conference on the “Nazi Treatment of the Disabled” Friday at the BCC Holocaust Center in Fall River.

The focus is on the Nazi T4 euthanasia program, a Nazi Germany effort framed as a euthanasia program to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught and elderly people, the college said.

The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in rooms H209 and H2010 in the Jackson Arts Center H-Building at the BCC campus, 777 Elsbree St.

It is free and open to the public.

Grodin is a professor of health law, ethics and human rights. He has received two of the highest awards granted the BU faculty, the Career Research and Scholarship Award and Norman A. Scotch Award.

He also directs the project on medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, is a Judaic studies faculty member and member of BU’s Division of Religious Studies.

He holds a bachelor’s from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has had postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA and Harvard and has been a member of BU’s faculty for 34 years.

Further information about the program is available by contacting Ron Weisberger, director of the BCC Holocaust Center, at 774-357-2444 or by emailing him at ron.weisberger@bristollcc.edu.