When the World Meets in Jerusalem

It was the darkest chapter in world history, the smell of burnt flesh coming out of the ovens in Auschwitz, the unimaginable horrors, the experiments, the demonic evil force that tried to eradicate the Jewish people was stopped 75 years ago.

Giving Life by Taking Life in Auschwitz

Primum non nocere (“First, to do no harm”) is the Latin translation for the original Greek and a part of the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors must make. But sometimes, doing harm to one, saves the life of another. This ethical dilemma was faced many times by Jewish physicians during the Holocaust who knew that pregnant Jewish women would be sent to the gas chamber, no questions asked.