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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.

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.

— USHMM, courtesy of Anna Hassa Jarosky and Peter Hassa



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