The painting is based on an article that Hirschberger read about medical experiments conducted at Neuengamme concentration camp, located outside of Hamburg, Germany. The article told the story of 20 children who had been transported from Auschwitz to Neuengamme at the request of SS physician Kurt Heissmayer, who was conducting experiments to dev...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The visual text of this painting relates to testimony given at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials between 1963-1965, in "Auschwitz: A report on the proceedings against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and others before the court at Frankfurt" by Bernd Naumann, published in 1966. At the trial four Polish witnesses (three of whom were doctors), two SS men tes...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.