{"id":7040,"date":"2014-11-18T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:10:44","slug":"the-ambiguous-victim-miklos-nyiszlis-narrative-of-medical-experimentation-in-auschwitz-birkenau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"The ambiguous victim: Mikl\u00f3s Nyiszli&#8217;s narrative of medical experimentation in Auschwitz-Birkenau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marius Turda<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/historein.jpg\" alt=\"Historein\" class=\"wp-image-11447\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Historein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>While recent scholarship has \u2013 for the past two decades \u2013 endeavoured to transcend initial reservations about these forms of testimony, the difficulty with some of these memoirs \u2013 namely their authors\u2019 implicit complicity in unethical medical research and in the Nazi Holocaust in general \u2013 remains however problematic. To address this thorny issue, in this article I consider the memoirs of a Jewish inmate doctor and forensic pathologist who worked with and for SS medical officers in Auschwitz, particularly Josef Mengele. His name was Mikl\u00f3 Nyiszli. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Turda M.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4374105\/\">The ambiguous victim: Mikl\u00f3s Nyiszli&#8217;s narrative of medical experimentation in Auschwitz-Birkenau.<\/a>&nbsp; <span class=\"cit\">Historein. 2014; 14(1): 43\u201358. <\/span>doi:&nbsp; 10.12681\/historein.232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marius Turda ExtractWhile recent scholarship has \u2013 for the past two decades \u2013 endeavoured to transcend initial reservations about these forms of testimony, the difficulty with some of these memoirs \u2013 namely their authors\u2019 implicit complicity in unethical medical research and in the Nazi Holocaust in general \u2013 remains however problematic. 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