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Dr. Miriam Offer
דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines
פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications
  • Pegelow Kaplan, T., Gruner, W., Offer, M., & Cohen, B. (eds.), (2025). Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/holocaust-testimonies-9781350237872

  • Komem, J. & Offer, M. (forthcoming ). A History of the Jewish Hospital in Kalisz during the Holocaust. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 40. Estimated number of pages: 29
    Q2 (History /

  • Offer, M. (2025). "The Final Final Solution": The War Against Fetuses in Their Mothers' Wombs. S.I.M.O.N. SHOAH. INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION; 12(1). Special Issue. 51–66.

  • Offer, M. & Ohry, A. (January 2024). "Not Everything Was Swallowed Up by the Night" – The Study of Medicine in Extreme Situations: The Underground Medical School in the Warsaw Ghetto. Harefuah;163(1):17–20. (Hebrew). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377875373_MEDICAL_STUDIES_IN_EXTREME_SITUATION_THE_SCHOOL_OF_MEDICINE_IN_WARSAW_GHETTO

  • Offer, M. & Freund, N. (in press, 2025). A History of Jewish Medicine. Antisemitic Arrows and Emanuel Ringelblum's Vision. Korot, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 28. Estimated number of pages: 13

  • Peretz, A., Ahgur, N., Shimron, O., Ohry, A., & Offer, M. 2024. "Clinical Laboratories and their Contribution to the Medical System in Ghettos During the Holocaust." KOROT, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science 27. 184-205. https://www.magnespress.co.il/book/Korot-8644

  • Czech, H., Hildebrandt, S., Reis, S. P. Chelouche, T., Fox, M., Gonzáles-López, E., Lepicard, E., Ley, A., Offer, M., Ohry, A. Rotzoll, M., Sachse, C., Siegel, S., Šimůnek, M., Teicher, A., Uzarczyk, K., van Villiez, A., Wald, H. S., Wynia, M. K., Roelcke, V. "The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow." The Lancet. November 2023;402(10145). 1867–1940. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01845-7/abstract JIF: 88.5, Q1

  • 8. Czech, H., Hildebrandt, S., Reis, S. P. Chelouche, T., Fox, M., Gonzáles-López, E., Lepicard, E., Ley, A., Offer, M., Ohry, A. Rotzoll, M., Sachse, C., Siegel, S., Šimůnek, M., Teicher, A., Uzarczyk, K., van Villiez, A., Wald, H. S., Wynia, M. K., Roelcke, V. A. (November 2023). Conceptual Framework and Roadmap for Teaching Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. In "The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow." The Lancet; 402(10145). 1911–1919. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01845-7/abstract JIF: 88.5, Q1

  • 10. Offer, M., Chelouche T., Shasha-Lavsky, H., Lepicard E., Ohry, A. (April 2023) ["AN UNFINISHED SYMPHONY": MEDICINE DURING THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING]. Harefuah. 162(4):252-256. (Hebrew). PMID: 37120747 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37120747/

  • Shasha-Lavsky, H. & Offer, M. (17.04.2023). Dr. Israel Milejkowski: A Forgotten National Hero. DoctorsOnly. Hebrew. https://doctorsonly.co.il/2023/04/282612/

  • Offer, M. (2022). Maria Ciesielska, The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Social History of Medicine; hkac068, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkac068
    JIF: 0.7–0.9, Q1.

  • Offer, M. (Winter 2022). The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto by Maria Ciesielska, Review. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 36(3), pp. 445–447. dcac054, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcac054

  • Offer, M. (2022-3). Jewish Medical Networks in the Ghettos During the Holocaust. In Eliana R. Adler and Natalia Aleksiun (eds.), Entanglements of War: Social Networks during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem: Jerusalem, pp. 193–229.

  • Offer, M. (2022). Thoughts on the Ethical Dilemmas of Jewish Physicians in the Ghettos in Poland during the Holocaust and the Relevance for Today. Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire, 2022, Maria Ciesielska, Piotr Gajewski, Jakub Antosz-Rekucki (eds.), pp. 35–54. https://issuu.com/medycynapraktyczna/docs/3._thoughts_on_the_ethical_dilemmas_of_jewish_phys

  • Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. (eds.), (2021). Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During and After the Holocaust. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HildebrandtRecognizing

  • Reis, S. &. Offer, M. (guest eds.) (2021), KOROT, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science No. 25. Education and Ethics in the Shadow of the History of Medicine during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press. https://www.magnespress.co.il/book/Korot-8221

  • Schwartzman, J. and Offer, M. (2020). The Fate of the Jewish Medical Staff of the Medical Institutes in the City of Stavropol during the Holocaust. Harefuah – the Israel Medical Association Journal, 159(4), April 2020, pp. 273–277. (Hebrew).

  • Offer, M. (2022-3). Medical Activity in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Test of Jewish Solidarity in the Face of Persecution. In Dan Michman and Robert Rosett (eds.), Jewish Solidarity: The Ideal and the Reality in the Turmoil of the Shoah. Yad Vashem: Jerusalem, pp. 97–128

  • Offer, M. (2021). Jewish Medical Activity in the Ghettos under the Nazi Regime: Characteristics and Broad Historical Context. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 33.pp.494-516

  • 21. Offer, M., "Der Doktor"- The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar Period." In S. Hildebrandt, M. Offer, & M. Grodin. (eds.), (2021). Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During and After the Holocaust and Legacies for the 21st Century (pp. 59–81). New York, Oxford: Berghahn

  • 19. Offer, M. (2021). The Medical Services in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Summary – and Thoughts on the Challenges of Research. In S. Reis & M. Offer, (guest eds.) (2021), KOROT: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science No. 25. Education and Ethics in the Shadow of the History of Medicine during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press. https://www.magnespress.co.il/book/Korot-8221

  • Offer, M. (2021). The Importance and Fate of the Writings of Jewish Physicians in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Case of Dr. Mordecai Lensky (1890-1964): Physician, Holocaust Survivor, Historian, Literary Critic and Activist in Holocaust Commemoration. In A. Ley, E. Cuerda-Galindo, M. Ciesielska (eds.), Medical Care and Crime in German Occupied Poland 1939-1945. Metropol Varlag: Berlin, pp. 78-105.

  • Offer, M., (Consulting Ed.) (Spring 2020), NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. Jewish Women Medical Practitioners in Europe – Before, During and After the Holocaust. No. 36, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Offer, M., "Der Doktor"- The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar Period." In S. Hildebrandt, M. Offer, & M. Grodin. (eds.), ( 2020). Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During and After the Holocaust and Legacies for the 21st Century (pp. 59–81). New York, Oxford: Berghahn

  • Offer, M. (2020). White Coats In the Ghetto: Jewish Medicine in Poland during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. 704 pages.

  • Offer, M. (2019). Coping with the Impossible: The Developmental Roots of the Jewish Medical System in the Ghettos. In M. Moskalewicz, F. Dross, & U. Caumanns (eds.). Jewish Medicine Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe (pp. 261–277). Springer

  • Offer, M. (2018). Jewish Medical Ethics During the Holocaust - The Unwritten Ethical Code. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, The Central European Journal of Medicine, 130, pp. 172-176.

  • Offer, M., Herzog, R., Pasher, Y., & Ohry, A. (2017). Medicine and Urology in the First Half of the 20th Century in Eretz-Israel and in the Shadow of the Holocaust. In D. Schultheiss & F. H. Moll (eds.), Urology under the Swastika (pp. 227-253). Leuven, Belgium: Davidsfonds.

  • Offer, M. (2016). Studying Medicine and Medical Research in the Ghettos: How and Why Was the Underground Medical School in the Warsaw Ghetto Established? Bishvil Hazikaron, 24, 30-38. (Hebrew).

  • Offer, M. (2016). The Study of Jewish Medicine During the Holocaust: Trends and Characteristics of its Development. Korot, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 23, 111-149.

  • Offer, M, (2016) Social History of Medicine 29(4), 853-855: Harro Jenss, Peter Reinicke, Hrsg. 2014. Der Arzt Hermann Strauß 18681944: Autobiographische Notizen und Aufzeichnungen aus dem Ghetto Theresienstadt. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich.[Book Review]

  • Offer, M. (2015). White Coats Inside the Ghetto: A Look at the History of Jewish Medicine during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. 595 pages. [Hebrew].

  • Offer, M. (2014). Medicine in the Shavli Ghetto in Light of the Newly Discovered Diary of Dr. Aaron Pik. In: M. Grodin (ed.), Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (pp.164-172). New York, Oxford: Berghahn.

  • Offer, M. (2014). The Study of Jewish Medicine During the Holocaust: Its Creation and Preliminary Steps. Korot, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 22, 129-154

  • Offer, M. (2012). Ethical Dilemmas in the Work of Doctors and Nurses in the Warsaw Ghetto. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 25, 467-49

מענקים ופרסים | Grants and Awards

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שנת המענק: 2025

Claims Conference Grant G-2309-40712 Research and Education and Documentation. NIS 147,050.

The Lancet Commissions on Medicine and the Holocaust Israeli Teach the Teachers Course

בשיתוף עם Prof. Shmuel Reis, Prof. Avi Ohry, Dr. Etienne Lepicard, Dr. Tessa Chelouche, Dr. Hadas Lavsky, Dr. Matthias Fuchs, Dr. Shani Levany

147,000

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שנת המענק: 2020

משרד המדע והטכנולוגיה

רפואה, תחלואה וילדות בשואה ולאחריה - מחקר רב תחומי בנושא השואה והרלוונטיות למאה ה-21

בשיתוף עם פרופ' שאול שאשא , המרכז הרפואי לגליל ; ד"ר בעז כהן - ראש התכנית ללימודי השואה, האקדמית גליל מערבי

270,000

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שנת המענק: 2017

Fellowship: Scholar-in-Residence, Brandeis University

Women at the Frontier of the Jewish Medical Services in the Ghettos

בשיתוף עם Scholar-in-Residence

6,000 $

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שנת המענק: 2017

The Azrieli Foundation

a project that I initiated as Co-Chair of The Second International Conference on Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond, Western Galilee, Israel, 7-11 May 2017

בשיתוף עם Prof.Shmuel Reis

50,000 $

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שנת המענק: 2013

קרן עגיט- פרס על מחקרי אודות מערך הרפואה בגטו ורשה

Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Literature

1,500 $

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Claims Conference

For the English publication of my book: White Coats Inside the Ghetto: Jewish Medicine in Poland during the Holocaust

50,000 $

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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture - New York

Research in New York and Washington archives