Bodies of children in the Institute of Anatomy in Halle (Saale), Germany, between 1920 and 1945

Medical school holds joint funeral for 74 children whose preserved bodies were found on site

“…Their study, published in January 2018 in the Annals of Anatomy ,1 concluded that the bodies were acquired by the institute between 1920 and 1942. Some 29 of the children were preterm and died either stillborn or shortly after birth, while 40 children died in the first year of life.…”