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Around 3,000 children (mostly twins) were selected at Auschwitz as guinea pigs for medical experiments by SS doctor Josef Mengele. Around 160 of them survived. The advantage of using twins was to compare the different reaction to medications. For example, an experimental medication or vaccine was inoculated to one; then both were infected with the disease. The doctors could verify the different impact of the disease on each of them. Usually, the death of one twin meant the death of the other.

Some children were also sent from Auschwitz to other research centers in Germany.

• Mengele Twins (Candles Holocaust Museum)

• The Twins of Auschwitz (BBC News, 2015)

Memoirs

2011

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Terre Haute, IN : Tanglewood Pub., 2009) is the memoir written by Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor (b.1934).

"Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults, readers learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working for causes of human rights and peace."--Publisher description.

Bibliography

1990

Lucette Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz (New York, NY: Morrow, 1990).

"During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivor twins, who until now have kept silent about their heinous death-camp ordeals and are themselves now inching into middle or old age. In stories that abound with ambiguity, anger, and redemptive hope, we encounter them first as children beginning their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away to be killed. Later, we see the twins grateful for the soup and bread Mengele procured for them and reassured by his moments of seemingly genuine affection, yet terrified, always, by what he forced them to endure."--Publisher description.

Lucette Matalon Lagnado (USA, 1956-2019) was an Egyptian-born American Jewish journalist and memoirist. Born in Cairo to a Jewish family, she lived in the United States. She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.