Historical Events tagged with "medical experiments"
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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.
Continue ReadingJosef Mengele becomes chief medical officer at Auschwitz
Josef Mengele was appointed as the chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager, or Romani family camp, at Auschwitz concentration camp. Known for his inhumane medical experiments, Mengele’s role involved overseeing the health and deaths of countless Romani individuals captured during the Holocaust. This appointment provided Mengele the opportunity to further conduct his controversial and brutal studies on genetics and human behavior.
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