Victims remnants of a Nazi doctor found at the Institute of … – TF1

They were kept in a jar and test pieces. Remains of victims of the anatomist Nazi August Hirt were discovered on July 9 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine Strasbourg by historian Raphael Toledano, author of several work on the subject, “The name of the 86″, a documentary directed by Emmanuel Heyd. With the assistance of the current director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Strasbourg, Professor Johann Sebastian Raul, the researcher was able to identify several pieces, including “a jar containing skin fragments of a victim of gas chamber “said the municipality in a statement. The researcher also discovered “two test tubes containing the contents of the intestine and stomach of a victim and a registration roller used in the incineration of bodies” in Alsatian concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof.

These remains belong to several of the 86 victims of a proposed “collection of Jewish skeletons” wanted by August Hirt. Much remains largely cut, had been found by the allies soon after the liberation of Strasbourg in 1944, and was quickly buried in a Jewish cemetery. The pieces found now are items that had been preserved by a Professor of Forensic Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, Camille Simonin, as part of the investigation into the crimes of Dr. Hirt. Camille Simonin had been charged by the military authorities to perform forensic autopsies to “establish the conditions that led to the deliberate killing” victims.

Their existence had controversy

In his research, the researcher Raphaël Toledano was referred by a letter of Professor dating from 1952. The letter of this particular teacher was “mention of jars containing the samples taken during the forensic autopsies performed on the Jewish victims of the gas chamber of Struthof”. “The labels identify each piece with precision and are including status 107969 number, which corresponds to the number that was tattooed on the Auschwitz Camp forearm Menachem Taffel, one of 86 victims (…) as is confirmed by the archives of the Auschwitz Camp, “was it added.

The municipality intends to put the pieces discovered in the Jewish community in Strasbourg. They will be a burial and must join the remains of the victims buried in the Jewish cemetery of Cronenbourg west of the Alsatian metropolis, said the municipality. The controversy surrounding the existence of long doubted remains of Nazi victims at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Strasbourg had been relaunched in January after publishing a Book medical and columnist TV Michel Cymes dedicated physicians concentration camps.

In this book published in January, Michel Cymes had cited evidence that anatomical cuts 86 made in the Nazi era were still stored at the institute. In response to this publication, researchers, Strasbourg University and the Institute of Forensic Medicine had then categorically denied the existence of such non-buried remains of the victims.