MeTZelf collaborates with the International Commemoration Committee on Eugenic Mass Murder to organize annual memorials for the victims of psychiatrists during the nazi regime (T-4). The date chosen by ICC-EMM is May 2.

The first memorials were held in December of 2002 and the second in May 2003. In 2004 memorials were held in Toronto, Chicago, Bernburg (one of the mass murder sites) and Amsterdam.

This year memorials were held in Toronto, Chicago, Berlin, Washington DC, and Amsterdam.

The Toronto group, coping, like ourselves, with a lack of volunteers, delivered their memorial speech by letter to city officials.

In Chicago, directors David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder arranged a memorial viewing of their documentary, A World Without Bodies. Also, as part of their city-wide commemoration efforts this month, they have launched a website that chronicles the journeys of their U.S. and Canadian scholarly team to Germany last summer. Their mission was to investigate the T-4 murders by visiting various memorial sites and archives as well as assessing the impact of this disastrous history on modern day Germans with disabilities. 

The German group, which has been active in memorializing the T-4 victims for many years, laid a wreath on the T-4 memorial plaque in Berlin.

MindFreedom, a successful international group based in Oregon which has joined our efforts, is negotiating with the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC for a permanent memorial. They included a mention of the T-4 victims during their demonstration on May 2, and afterward a delegation from the demonstrators visited the Deadly Medicine exhibit at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum. They report that the exhibit was quite excellent.

In Amsterdam we were compelled to give up on a separate May 2 memorial service this year due to a lack of funds and volunteers. However, a memorial corner was erected in MeTZelf's booth at the annual Information Market on May 5. The festive background was inappropriate, but at least there were massive crowds present. A black drape, flowers, and a provocatively worded poster drew attention to the T-4 victims. Many people were interested, asked questions, and/or took along a transcript of our memorial speech to read later. Only one elderly woman, pushing a rollator, waved our explanations away with the words, "No thanks. I'd rather forget." She has earned the right to, the rest of us have not.