July 20, 2015 - A plaque in memory of 86 Jews killed for Nazi medical experiments at the university of Strasbourg during World War II, at the entrance of the anatomy school in Strasbourg, eastern France. The remains of Jewish gas chamber victims subjected to Nazi anatomy experiments have been traced to a medical research facility in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.
(AP)
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Raphael Toledano-- a researcher from Strasbourg— stumbled upon a 1952 letter from Camille Simonin, the director of the forensic science school at the University of Strasbourg, detailing the storage of tissue samples taken from some of the 86 Jews gassed for the experiments of August Hirt, a notorious Nazi anatomy researcher.[From article]
The letter’s brief reference to the samples began a hunt that finally ended this month, with the discovery of the jars and test tubes found behind a glass cupboard in a locked room at the Strasbourg Forensic Medical Institute in the eastern French city.
The autopsy samples were intended to be used to prosecute Hirt, who directed the construction of a gas chamber built specifically to provide victims for experiments carried out at the facility. At the time, Germans had replaced the French staff, which largely decamped elsewhere.[. . .]
The experiments were part of Nazi efforts to smear the Jews by 'proving' what the Nazis believed was their inferiority compared to other races.
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Most of the victims’ remains were found by the allies when Americans liberated Strasbourg in 1945, and quickly buried in a Jewish cemetery.
Hirt ultimately committed suicide,
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The samples were apparently forgotten until July 9, when Toledano and Raul cracked open the door at the Institute. The storage container and jar and test tubes were meticulously labeled just as the letter detailed, Toledano said.
"It was a shock to discover that these jars were still there, that we put in a museum display a part of these Jews who were murdered by the Nazis," Toledano said.
The Strasbourg mayor's office said Monday it hopes to return the remains to Strasbourg's Jewish community for eventual burial in the city, which sits on the border of France and Germany.
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Remains of Jewish victims of Nazi anatomy experiments found in France
Published July 20, 2015
