White Coats in the Ghetto: Jewish Medicine in Poland During the Holocaust (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789653086029)

Dr. Miriam Offer is a senior lecturer at Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel and teaches the History of Medicine during the Holocaust in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Offer's research expertise is in Jewish medical activity during the Holocaust, and she is a partner in research and educational initiatives in this field. She is a member of the organizational scientific committee of the annual Nahariya Conferences on Medicine and the Holocaust, and is a scientific committee member for "Witnesses in White"--organized guided tours to Poland for physicians--under the auspices of the Israel Medical Association. Dr. Offer was a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) during the summer semester of 2017, and is currently a member of the HBI Academic Advisory Committee and a Research Associate. In this capacity, she is researching Jewish women's contribution to the medical services in the ghettos. She was one of the founders of the Hedva Eibschitz Institute for Holocaust Studies in Haifa, where she served as Director from 1988 to 1993, and has extensive experience in leading and developing Holocaust teaching programs and commemorative activities. Both in Israel and overseas, she lectures on Medicine and the Holocaust at international conferences and is a member of scientific committees dealing with the subject.