Medical school holds joint funeral for 74 children whose preserved bodies were found on site

A German medical school has held a joint funeral service for 74 children, whose bodies had been inexplicably preserved in phenol solutions for more than half a century in the basement of the university.

The service was organised by the department of medicine at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.

Heike Kielstein, director of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the university, learned of the preserved bodies in 2011 on her first day on the job as director. The bodies were stored in two fixation containers and were not used for teaching or scientific …