During
World War II Japanese scientists, with full knowledge and approval of
their superiors, secretly carried on a series of cruel and painful
medical experiments on prisoners of war, such as injecting them with
deadly bacteria, subjecting them to oxygen deprivation, submersing them
in freezing water, operating on them without anesthesia and much more,
all in an effort to determine the outside limits of human endurance.
Thousands died from these callous experiments, yet the persons
responsible were never punished after the war. Barbara will tell of of
the secret agreement made between those responsible for these inhuman
acts of torture and the Allies, and the reasons for the suppression of
this story of man's inhumanity to man, and its legacy.
Ms. Boyer is currently a teacher at South Plainfield High School. A summa cum laude graduate of Rider University, she holds a Master's Degree in Spanish Linguistics from Penn State and a second Masters Degree from Kean University. Barbara has a keen interest in Asian history and in the summer of 2012 she traveled to China on a scholarship to study Chinese history, specifically focusing on China and Japan during World War II.
Ms. Boyer is currently a teacher at South Plainfield High School. A summa cum laude graduate of Rider University, she holds a Master's Degree in Spanish Linguistics from Penn State and a second Masters Degree from Kean University. Barbara has a keen interest in Asian history and in the summer of 2012 she traveled to China on a scholarship to study Chinese history, specifically focusing on China and Japan during World War II.
