13 Nov 1942 | SS doctor Johann Paul Kremer diary: "Fresh material (liver, spleen & pancreas) from a Jewish prisoners of 18, extremely atrophic, who had been photographed before. As usual, the liver and spleen were preserved in Carnoy, and the pancreas in Zenker (no. 68030)" 1/2 
The prisoner with this camp number arrived at #Auschwitz on October 14, 1942 in a transport from the Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands.
His name was Hans de Yong (born February 18, 1924 in Frankfurt). He perished on November 13, 1942. 2/2
His name was Hans de Yong (born February 18, 1924 in Frankfurt). He perished on November 13, 1942. 2/2
SS-Obersturmführer Johann Paul Kremer, a professor of anatomy from the University of Münster, carried out research in #Auschwitz in connection with diseases resulting from the effects of starvation on the human organism, particularly “brown liver atrophy” (braune Atrophie).
Kremer chose prisoners who struck him as suitable research subjects from those who asked to be admitted to the camp hospital, or he simply chose them from among the patients in the hospital. The selected prisoners were killed.
Johann Kremer was tried in the Auschwitz trial at the sitting of the Supreme Court National Tribune in Kraków throughout Nov & Dec 1947. Based on the contents of his diary & his own confessions, Kremer participated in fourteen gassings as well as multiple public executions
Kremer was sentenced to death, but this sentence was later commuted to one of life imprisonment. He was released in 1958. He died in 1965.
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