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PARIS — The remains of Jewish gas chamber victims subjected to Nazi anatomy experiments have been traced to a medical research facility in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.

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A researcher discovered a World War II-era letter from the then-director of the Strasbourg Medical Institute about the experiments directed by Nazi anatomist August Hirt. The letter detailed the storage of tissue samples taken from Jews killed in gas chambers built specifically for Hirt’s experiments. On July 9, the researcher, Raphael Toledano, identified the samples in test tubes and a jar in the institute’s closed collection.

According to AFP, Hirt brought the bodies of 86 Jews murdered in 1943 to Strasbourg. After the city was liberated in November of 1944, most of the bodies were found preserved in alcohol and buried in a Jewish cemetery.

Le Monde reports the remains were found in a jar and test tubes. The jar contained skin fragments from a victim of the gas chambers. Other test tubes contained stomach and intestine parts.