Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997
Death for Sale
By Amos Elon
Masks: An Attempt about Shoah
an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Vienna, July 25-October 26, 1997
By a coincidence, William Pfaff's article 'Eugenics, Anyone?' in which he described the killings at Steinhof, Vienna's 'model' psychiatric hospital, where until 1945 handicapped and 'antisocial' children deemed 'unworthy to live' were put to death by Nazi eugenicists and medical doctors, appeared in The New York Review [November 9] just as a remarkable exhibition was being shown in Vienna at the new Jewish Museum in the Dorotheergasse. On display were death masks and busts of Jews who were killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp outside Posen, then in German Silesia. Posen, renamed Posnan, became Polish after 1945.
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