Sari J. Siegel is a historian of the Holocaust specializing in medicine and medical practices during the Nazi regime. Her research situates Jewish prisoner-physicians in macro and micro contexts, revealing how both their assignment to medical posts in Nazi camps and their conduct in those posts expand our understanding of the Holocaust. Siegel has published several articles in venues such as Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Journal of Genocide Research, and she is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust: Conscription, Circumstances, and Medical Conduct, 1940–1945. Dedicated to bringing the history of medicine under the Nazi regime and its implications to the awareness of current and prospective health professionals today, she has taught this subject matter to medical students as a guest instructor at the Yale School of Medicine, to undergraduates as a visiting assistant professor in history at UCLA, and to a broad audience as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently as an assistant professor in the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine. Siegel has been invited to present her research in numerous countries and is a member of the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow, whose eponymous report will be published on November 9, 2023.
Siegel holds a BA in history from Yale University and a PhD in history from the University of Southern California.
(Co-authored work), “Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow,” commission report for The Lancet, forthcoming
“The Coercion-Resistance Spectrum: Analyzing Prisoner-Functionary Behaviour in Nazi Camps,” Journal of Genocide Research, 23 (2021): 17–36
“Treating an Auschwitz Prisoner-Physician: The Case of Dr. Maximilian Samuel,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 28 (2014): 450–481