Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc.

presents

Meet the Author

Dr. Myron Winick

Book and Author: Final Stamp: The Jewish Doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto by Myron Winick, M.D.

When: Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.

Where:

Holocaust Documentation and Education Center

2031 Harrison Street

Hollywood, FL 33020

RSVP: Seating is limited, so please RSVP to Regina Burgess, Librarian, at (954) 929-5690 Ext. 209 or email regina@hdec.org.

From February to the middle of July 1942, a remarkable study was carried out in the Warsaw Ghetto, a study of starvation conducted by the Jewish physicians in the two largest hospitals in the ghetto. The results of this study have survived and become a cornerstone of the medical literature on the changes undergone by the human body when not enough food is available. This book is the story of that study