![A Jewish child is forced to show the scar left after SS physicians removed his lymph nodes. [LCID: 78743l]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d0227dd1-2152-4b9e-93e3-dba361f7cc4b.jpg)
A Jewish child is forced to show the scar left after SS physicians removed his lymph nodes. This child was one of 20 Jewish children injected with tuberculosis germs as part of a medical experiment. All were murdered on April 20, 1945. Neuengamme concentration camp, Germany, between December 1944 and February 1945.
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