
Four Polish women arrive at the Nuremberg train station to serve as prosecution witnesses at the Doctors Trial. From left to right are Jadwiga Dzido, Maria Broel-Plater, Maria Kusmierczuk, and Wladislawa Karolewska. December 15, 1946. Photograph »
Concentration camp survivor Jadwiga Dzido shows her scarred leg to the Nuremberg court, while an expert medical witness explains the nature of the procedures inflicted on her in the Ravensbrück concentration camp on November 22, 1942. The experiments, including injections of highly potent bacteria, were performed by defendants Herta Oberheuser and Fritz Ernst Fischer. December 20, 1946. Photograph »
Clandestine photograph of a Polish political prisoner and medical experimentation victim in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Pictured is Maria Kusmierczuk. Her leg was disfigured by injections of tetanus bacteria as part of medical experiments carried out in the camp. October 1944. Photograph »