Selected Events 2006

From left: Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble; Fred S. Zeidman, Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council; Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr.; Joel M. Geiderman, Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council; Sue Timken

October 11, 2006
Ambassador Timken participated in the opening of “Deadly Medicine,” an exhibit about racial policies under the Nazis, which began an eight-month run at Dresden’s Hygiene Museum. The exhibit venue is significant, as some of the museum’s scholars in the 1930s were among those who embraced Eugenics. The exhibit is on loan from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition to the Ambassador, speakers included Saxony Minister-President Georg Milbradt and Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. In attendance among the almost 1000 guests were Fred Zeidman, Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, and Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. This exhibit marks the first time the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has ever lent one of its exhibits to an overseas museum. Invited guest attendance at the opening was expected to be 450 but approached 1000 -- clear evidence of the great interest in the subject. Hygiene Museum officials expect a great deal of interest over the next months, especially from school groups.