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Eva Mozes Kor (January 31, 1934 – July 4, 2019) was a Romanian-born American survivor of the Holocaust.Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under the direction of SS Doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). [1]
Headed by Josef Mengele from 1943–44, [13] twin experiments were of particular interest as one twin could serve as subject with the other as the control. [14] This research also hoped to gain insight in how Germans could reproduce more twins. [15]
She and her twin sister, Miriam, experienced horrors in the inhum ane medical experiments of SS physician Josef Mengele. Laks was initially lined up to be murdered in gas chambers, but her older ...
Forgiving Dr. Mengele is a 2006 documentary film about Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the Holocaust, and Dr. Josef Mengele and his staff, who experimented on her and her twin sister Miriam Mozes, as well as approximately 1,400 other twin pairs.
From left to right, Baer, Mengele and Höss at Solahütte. Both of the camp's most well-known commanders, Richard Baer and Rudolf Höss, are visible in the photographs. Josef Mengele, known to camp prisoners as the "Angel of Death", was a trained physician, who directed medical experiments on twin children in the camp. He regularly took part in ...
The Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa has suggested that Mengele conducted experiments on women in the area, which could be responsible for the high ratio of twins. [8] According to some commentators, about the time of Mengele's arrival in southern Brazil in 1963, the incidence of twins began to increase, allegedly leading to the current rate ...
[3] [4] Mengele, not recognizing she was a twin, sent the 14-year-old Jona in the direction of the gas chambers. [4] However, when her older sister apprised Mengele of that fact, Jona and Miriam were sent to Mengele's "laboratory" for twins research. [3] [5] Jona was tattooed with the number A27725 and Miriam received the number A27700. [1]