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Remains of Second World War Jews laid to rest in Strasbourg

2015-09-07 38 Dailymotion

Kept in jars and test tubes for seven decades, human remains believed to belong to Holocaust victims have been buried at last.<br /><br /> Found locked up in a French medical school in July 2015, some of the remains had previously been put on display or kept for legal or scientific purposes, according to media reports.<br /><br /> The burial, which took place near Strasbourg, France, aimed to close a troubling chapter in the region’s history.<br /><br /> During the Second World War, some 86 corpses were sent to the anatomy institute at the University of Strasbourg to be used in the experiments of Nazi researcher August Hirt.<br /><br /> Only one of the victims has been definitively identified: Menachem Taffem, a Polish Jew was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death.

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