Karel Sperber
Surgeon imprisoned in Auschwitz who testified on Nazi medical experiments at the Nuremberg Trials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karel Sperber OBE (1910–1957) was a Jewish Czechoslovak surgeon who travelled to England after the Nazi invasion of his country, but unable to practice medicine because he was an alien, took a job as a ship's doctor instead and was captured by Axis forces when his ship was sunk by the Germans.
Dr Karel Sperber | |
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Born | 1910 (1910) Tachov, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 1957 (aged 46–47) |
Nationality | Czechoslovak and British |
Medical career | |
Profession | Physician |
Sub-specialties | Surgery |
He was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where he was forced to help the SS doctor Carl Clauberg in his sterilisation experiments on Jewish women. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946 for the medical services he provided to prisoners of war. He became a ship's doctor again and worked for the British Colonial Medical Service in Ceylon, and then in Ghana where he died.