Health & Medicine

Jewish Children Killed in Neuengamme Experiments

At the Bullenhuser Damm school, twenty Jewish children, mostly from the Theresienstadt ghetto, were murdered after being subjected to medical experiments by Nazi doctors. On this day, as Allied forces closed in on Neuengamme concentration camp, the children, ages 5 to 12, were transported to the school where they were killed in the basement, a grim act intended to eliminate evidence of their suffering and the experiments conducted on them.

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