The Question of Unworthy Life: Rethinking Nazism’s First Genocide
Join the Museum for a book talk by Dr. Dagmar Herzog on the mass murder of people with disabilities during the Holocaust. In her new book The Question of Unworthy Life, Dr. Herzog explores how Germany became the only modern state to implement a plan to eradicate cognitive impairment by sterilizing and murdering hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens diagnosed with mental and emotional disabilities.
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she writes and teaches on the histories of sexuality and gender, Nazism and the Holocaust, disability activism and care work, psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
This program will feature a 45 minute lecture followed by live Q&A. The Question of Unworthy Life will also be on sale at the Museum Gift Shop.
- Accessible seating, assistive listening devices, and wheelchairs available upon request.
- This program will feature live captioning and ASL interpretation.