Clandestine photograph of a Polish political prisoner and medical experimentation victim in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. [LCID: 69341]
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Photograph documenting medical experiments on a Polish prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp

Clandestine photograph of a Polish political prisoner and medical experiment victim in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. 

Prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp took several clandestine photographs as evidence of the medical experiments conducted on them. The camp was the site of bone-grafting experiments and experiments to test newly developed sulfa drugs.

Pictured here, Bogumila Jasuik was chosen as one of the 74 "rabbits" for medical experimentation. German doctors experimented on her twice in November and December 1942, making four cuts on the muscles of her thigh.

The "rabbits" wanted to take photographs to document their mutilated legs. The photos were secretly taken behind the barracks and were processed after the war.

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