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Sep 17, 2024, 10:02 AM

October 7, 1944: A Lens for Reflecting on October 7, 2023 & 2024 & Taking Action

Prewar portrait of Ala Gartner, who was later imprisoned in the Auschwitz camp. —⁠US Holocaust Memorial Museum

October 7, 1944. Eighty years before October 7, 2024, the one year anniversary of October 7, 2023, the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. At this difficult anniversary, another October 7 comes to mind. In 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On...

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Hedy S. Wald, PhD is clinical professor of family medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She serves as a commissioner, the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. The views presented herein do not necessarily represent the other members of the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust, but rather the views of the author only.