Disability Studies and the Legacies of Eugenics

Memorial stone in graveyard overlooking Hadamar killing center
Gravestones placed to memorialize the Jewish victims of Hadamar's gas chamber.
Scholars sitting in sunny graveyard listening to director of Hadamar memorial
A small essay and  the drawing of a house completed by a child before he was gassed
Poster recently done by children to commemorate those killed at Hadamar.  It depicts a skeleton looking out of the gas chamber door.
Poster showing the pictures of 12 disabled female victims
Mark Sherry and Brenda Brueggemann studying archival documents
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Hadamar: Day Two

Pictures of disabled children killed at Hadamar. These are attached to a poster decorated recently by children visiting Hadamar and learning about its history.

Study Session Transcripts:

Excerpt from: Hadamar, July 16th, morning session. The director of the Hadamar memorial in discussion with scholars.

Question: "Do you think the living descendents now know what happened to the people who died here"?

"Last year we had 60 letters from families who wanted to know if a member of their family had been killed here. Each year this number increases. Now it’s the generation of the third and they find it easier to ask. This is why they write letters, come here… Often it’s that someone dies and another is looking at all the papers and they find a document from Hadamar, for example, and they come here. Often suspicion leads them here."

Transcript: July 16, afternoon session

 

Synopsis

July 16th: Hadamar

Sharon L. Snyder, Ph. D.,
Director, "Legacies of Eugenics" Summer Institute, Einstein Forum
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Ph. D. Program in Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. #207
Chicago IL 60608-6904 U.S.A.
E-mail: ssnyder@uic.edu Phone: (312) 413-1975 (Voice) Fax: (312) 996-0885