From 23 November 2023 to 31 March 2024, the Prinzhorn Collection Museum presented the exhibition "People who still could have lived". This exhibition commemorated artists from the Prinzhorn Collection who were victims of National Socialist (medical) crimes. The works on display conveyed an impression of the personalities behind the creations. Through the works, it is possible to get closer to the victims of National Socialist crimes in a way that numbers, photos or scant facts do not allow.
The exhibition and catalogue were conceived by a working group headed by PD Dr Thomas Röske and medical historian Prof. Dr Maike Rotzoll (University of Marburg). The exhibition is now accompanied by an educational film that Thomas Röske and Maike Rotzoll have produced for the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust teacher training programme. It can be used in future by teachers from medicine, other health professions and other educational programmes. The Prinzhorn Collection Museum thus joins the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust in its endeavour to integrate the topic of Nazi medical crimes into the training curricula of the healthcare professions, including in an international context.