Sara & Channah Seiler

Sora Seiler / Sora Vigorito (F / Germany, 1941), Holocaust survivor

Channah Seiler (F / Germany, 1941), Holocaust victim

• KEYWORDS : <Auschwitz> <Mengele Twins> <Liberation of Auschwitz>

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Sora Seiler Vigorito, born in October 1941 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her limited early memories of living in hiding in 1943; her mother and older sister being taken; hiding with her grandmother and twin sister; being found in 1944; being interned in the Children's Block with her twin in Auschwitz; experimentation under Josef Mengele; being injected with an unknown substance in her spine; suffering convulsions until 1983; the deaths of her twin sister, mother, and older sister; her grandmother sending her to her father who survived Dachau; and the trauma of the separation from her grandmother.