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Curator's Corner: Dr. Leslie Lukash and Nassau County's Role in the Identification of Josef Mengele's Remains

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CURATOR’S CORNER

In this virtual “Curator’s Corner” from October 21, 2020, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, talked about a newspaper article in our museum that discusses the role of Dr. Leslie Lukash, chief medical examiner of Nassau County in 1985, who led the American delegation sent to identify the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele in Brazil.

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