VERMILLION University Libraries at the University of South Dakota will host Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museums traveling exhibition through Jan. 6, 2013. This exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be located on the second floor, west side of the Libraries.

Deadly Medicine examines how Nazi leaders used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and genocide. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a horrific campaign to cleanse Germany of people viewed as biological threats to the nation. Enlisting the help of physicians and other medically-trained scientists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that started with the mass sterilization of hereditarily diseased persons and ended with the near annihilation of Jewish Europeans.

University Libraries is developing sixth through 12th grade curriculum opportunities for the exhibition, providing hands-on activities in history, social studies, languages and language arts that support South Dakota Common Core standards. The South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has provided support for programming accompanying the Deadly Medicine traveling exhibition, including lectures by two USD humanities scholars, Carol A. Leibiger, PhD, and David I. Burrow, PhD.

Leibigers lecture, Of Foxes and Poisonous Mushrooms: Julius Streicher and German Childrens Literature in Support of National Socialist Racialist Politics, is at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 and at 3 p.m. on Nov. 8. Burrow will present his lecture, Eugenics and the Nazi Conscience, at 3 p.m. on Nov. 13 and at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Nov. 15. Both lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be at the USD University Libraries, second floor atrium.

Deadly Medicine is made possible with support from The David Berg Foundation, the Dorot Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, and the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund established in 1990.

For more information about the exhibition, the humanities lectures, 6-12th grade curriculum opportunities, or to schedule tours and associated programming, contact Danielle De Jager-Loftus at danielle.loftus@usd.edu, Abby Moore at abby.moore@usd.edu or see http://bit.ly/USDholocaust.

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USD To Host Traveling Holocaust Exhibition