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Nazi medical experiments

The company logo of Weleda is on a glass bottle. Weleda produces herbal medicines and cosmetics. (Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
September 13, 2025, 3:33 am
Cosmetics firm Weleda to examine Nazi ties amid revelation of role in Dachau experiments
In book published this week, historian reveals that 300 prisoners were submerged in ice water for hours to verify claims company’s skin cream could protect from frostbite, killing 80-90
By Toby Axelrod
Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the US Public Health Service, who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
July 18, 2024, 10:34 am
Peter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86
Born to a Jewish father, Buxtun was reminded of Nazi medical experiments when he heard US health officials withheld treatment from hundreds of syphilis patients to study effects
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
November 9, 2023, 11:49 am
Medical professionals played major role in Nazi atrocities, study finds
New report recommends that study of Holocaust medical practices be incorporated into healthcare curricula, to better equip today’s doctors to face ethical dilemmas
By AFP
Leopold Lowy revisits Auschwitz-Birkenau in this undated photo. (Courtesy Richard Lowy)
April 26, 2022, 5:01 pm
Groundbreaking testimony of ‘Mengele twin’ on Birkenau atrocities to be revealed
Vivid recollections of day-to-day details at the extermination camp by Kalman Bar-on are being made public for the first time at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Tel Aviv
By Steve Leibowitz
A cemetery staff member lets down a box with the remains of political prisoners of the Nazi regime in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
May 14, 2019, 1:33 am
Microscopic remains of Nazi victims studied by German doctor buried in Berlin
Hermann Stieve kept tissue samples taken from hundreds of female resistance fighters killed in Berlin prison for his medical research
By Hui Min NEO
SS doctor August Hirt (Courtesy)
February 3, 2018, 8:23 am
New French film raises ghosts of Nazi medical horrors
Michel Cymes believes remains of 86 Jews tortured by SS doctor August Hirt may still be in the anatomy collection of the University of Strasbourg
By Laurence THOMANN
Students at Milecimo da Silva High School recently simulating Nazi human experiments in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)
November 14, 2017, 8:03 pm
Brazil high schoolers simulate Nazi human experiments for science fair
Brazil’s umbrella Jewish group says exhibition meant to highlight alleged scientific progress by Nazi doctors in concentration camps
By JTA
Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (Wikimedia Commons)
October 11, 2017, 10:22 pm
Novel on Nazi doctor Mengele in running for top French book prize
‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ tells the story of the life of the ‘Angel of Death’ after his Auschwitz experiments on Jewish prisoners
By AFP
Nazi objects found in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 9, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
June 14, 2017, 9:45 pm
Tools used in Nazi medical experiments uncovered in Argentina
Huge cache of memorabilia found in Buenos Aires house; minister will ask court to donate seized objects to Holocaust museum
By JTA
Author Martha Hall Kelly in the garden which inspired her book, 'Lilac Girls.' (YouTube screenshot)
May 16, 2017, 11:56 am
How a book on WWII Rabbits of Ravensbruck leapt into bestseller lists
Author Martha Hall Kelly first heard of the female Nazi experimentation victims by accident while visiting a lilac garden — but then she kept digging
By Lisa Klug
A bus and driver photographed outside Germany's Hartheim killing center in 1940, where physically and mentally disabled people were given 'mercy killings' through the secret T4 program (Public domain)
May 3, 2017, 8:09 pm
Scientists to identify victims of Nazi euthanasia
Project relies on 2014 discovery of slides of brain sections of those killed during Hitler’s rule
By Hui Min NEO
Steve Bannon at a meeting with advisers at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
February 10, 2017, 11:12 am
Bannon ‘wanted to make Nazi movie with Mel Gibson’
Trump’s top aide reportedly discussed documentary-style film on racial purity, contraception and Darwinism with actor-director
By ToI Staff
Former inmate and Mengele twin, Eva Mozes Kor walks the grounds at Auschwitz in 2007, on one of her many trips there as a lecturer. (courtesy)
December 8, 2016, 3:54 am
Holocaust survivor preaches forgiveness of Nazis as ‘ultimate revenge’
Reviled by many, Mengele twin Eva Mozes Kor is steadfast in her belief that there is no criminal who cannot be forgiven, even those who murdered her family
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
The former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology buiding in Berlin. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Torinberl/Wikimedia)
September 1, 2016, 8:14 pm
Human bones found near former Berlin Nazi research site
Archaeologists uncover fragments of fractured skulls, teeth, and vertebrae close to where Mengele’s victims were studied
By AP
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