BRESLAU | WROCŁAW

In 1943, a »Children’s ward« was also established at the Institute for Psychiatry and Mental Heredity at Breslau Hospital North. Heinrich Tewes was the director of the institute, and Heinz W. Neumann was the head of the »Children’s ward«.

The Neurological Research Institute of the University of Breslau was located just a few kilometres away. There, research was demonstrably carried out on the brains of children and adolescents who had been murdered in the »Children’s ward« in Loben (Lubliniec). There is no evidence to suggest that brains from the North Hospital were also sent to the research institute.

Neither the number of children and adolescents admitted nor those killed is known. However, according to conservative estimates, at least 145 children and adolescents were murdered at the North Hospital.

The existing medical records conspicuously often cite pneumonia, bronchial pneumonia and respiratory paralysis as causes of death.

The »Children’s ward« is believed to have existed until early 1945. Neumann went into hiding, Heinrich Tewes practised in Passau after the war and died in 1984.