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Menachem Taffel's body, part of the Jewish skeleton collection. The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by Nazi Germany to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the Jews' status as Untermenschen ("subhumans"), in contrast to the Aryan race, which the Nazis considered to be superior.
Memorial of the 86 Jewish victims murdered in 1943 at Struthof by August Hirt. Located at Institute of Anatomy of Strasbourg (Hôpital civil).. August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
Alice Simon (née Remak; August 30, 1887 – c. August 11–13, 1943) was a German woman of Polish and Jewish ancestry, who was killed by the Nazis during The Holocaust. Her remains were later identified as part of the Jewish skull collection, and she is commemorated with a Stolperstein in front of her former home in Berlin.
The true skull was passed to a physician and a professor before being gifted to Vienna's Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music) in 1895. The skull was reunited with Haydn's body at a tomb in the Bergkirche in Eisenstadt in 1932. It shares the tomb with another substitute skull. [72] [73]
In addition, three skulls were found on the floor of the tomb below the 0.5 metre (2') fill layer, [10] and crushed bones were found in the fill upon the arcosolia. [9] The scattering of these bones below the fill indicated that the tomb had been disturbed in antiquity. [17] All the bones were eventually turned over to religious authorities for ...
The cemetery's prayer hall, designed by Nathan Solomon Joseph This is a list of people buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, England. Willesden Jewish Cemetery, which opened in 1873, has 29,800 graves; three of the tombs, including that of Rosalind Franklin, are listed at Grade II by Historic England. The cemetery has 33 ...
Memorial plaque to Jewish deportees from Königsberg and East Prussia, [90] Kaliningrad North Railway Station. Memorial to the Victims of Fascism, [91] Krasnodar. Mass murder site monument, [92] Lyubavichi. Ravine of Death memorial stone, [93] Taganrog. Palmnicken massacre monument, [94] [95] Yantarny, Kaliningrad. Monument at Vostryakovo ...
Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz. Fritz Duschinsky [8] February 26, 1907: December 1, 1942: 35 Jewish Czechoslovak physicist