Medical Staff

Testimony from German court records relating to the trials of SS men charged with medical killing at Auschwitz is now available from our archives. The source for this data, Nauman, is listed in Recommended Reading.

• Clauberg, Karl
  Pursued his experiments on live specimens in Auschwitz. Involved in sterilization projects there. (Laska, Vera. ed. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. CT: Greenwood Press, 1983, p. 222).

• Dr. Wladyslav Dering
  Dering was a Polish prisoner

• Dr. Entress

• Gebhardt, Kar
  Involved in vivisection projects at both Ravensbruck and Auschwitz. Shot as war criminal in 1948. (Laska, 225)

• Hantl

• Klehr

• Kremer, Johannes Paul
  Vivisection. Hanged. (Klee, Ernst, Willi. Dressen, Volker Riess. The Good Old Days: The Holocaust As Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. NY: The Free Press, 1992, p. 258).

• Mengele, Josef (1911- ?)
  Mengele was appointed chief doctor at Auschwitz by Himmler in 1943. He joined Drs. Klein, Koenig, and Thilon in running the selection process. (Posner, Gerald. Mengele: The Complete Story. NY: Dell Publishing Co., 1987.) Mengele is believed dead, but his fate remains unknown. (See Lagnado, Lucette Matalon and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. NY: Penguin, 1992. for citations regarding Mengele's experimentation on twins)

• Oberhauser, Herta

• Scherpe

• Schumann, Horst

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