#auschwitz: a doctor's eyewitness account

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The Red Widow of Katowice

In the Katowice prison at Mikołowska street, executions were performed by guillotine. The guillotine of Katowice spread fear not only among the people of Silesia, but also the executioners operating it. Headsman August Koestner committed suicide. It was the only one in occupied Poland and it constantly ran red with blood. Post-war history of this beheading machine is just as grim.

But first, the condemned from Upper Silesia, Cieszyn Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin were sent to Breslau. But there were so many convictions that it was more economic to erect a guillotine in the Katowice prison. It was placed in a one-floor red brick building adjacent to the main prison block. After the war, the chamber was demolished, but eyewitnesses relate that it was tiled with white ceramic tiles and the “Red Widow” was behind a black curtain. This name was not accidental - from October 9th, 1941 to January 22nd 1945, five hundred and twenty two people were beheaded in Katowice. It was still operating a mere few days before the Soviets reached the city. Only after that the Nazis tried to hide the guillotine - they burnt most of the documents, but lists of condemned, sometimes unclear, remained in the City Hall. The first victim was Józef Myrczek, 32-year-old bricklayer from Czechowice, but the second one was a woman - 31-year-old Rozalia Drewniak from Zywiec. After her, fifty three more women were beheaded. Not even the youth were spared - thirteen boys, at most 19 years old, were executed as well. Zygmunt Walter-Janke, the last commander of the Home Army in Silesia, knew well what the condemned felt. In his memoirs, he related the eyewitness accounts:

“The atmosphere of fear reached its peak every night between 10pm and 12am. At that time, the condemned were led to execution. Their clothes were taken away and they were given a paper shirt to wear. Before the execution, the condemned had their hair cut and their neck shaved. Handcuffed, they were led to the execution chamber.”

Konstanty Ostrowski, one of the authors of the 1983 joint publication “Nazi prisons in Silesia, Dąbrowa Basin and Częstochowa 1939-1945” wrote: “In the antechamber, a prosecutor and a doctor awaited the condemned. The prosecutor asked a formal question if the condemned had any last works. After the usual answer of “No” or “I’m innocent”, only the black curtain separated the condemned from the executioner. The prosecutor read the standard refusal of clemency, ending it with the words „Ich übergebe Sie dem Scharfrichter!” - you are now being handed over to the executioner. The black curtain parted, the headsman’s assistants quickly dragged the condemned to the bascule, placed his head in the lunette and tied him down to the bascule with ropes. Then, the headsman released the blade that dropped on the condemned’s neck from a height of seven feet.” Bodies of the people executed in Katowice were taken to KL Auschwitz for cremation.

The Nazis did not want to take the guillotine to the Reich nor leave it when they escaped the city in January 1945. They buried it at night where nobody was supposed to look - at the Bogucice cemetery - and destroyed the documents. The people of Katowice dug the guillotine up and secured it as a proof of the Nazi crimes. After that, it was kept for several years in the attic of the Katowice Headquarters of the People’s Militia (communist police). Nobody was interested in it, but finally it was found by a member of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crime in Poland after a prosecutor heard stories of the “Red Widow” in the attic. Authorities gave it to the Auschwitz museum where it was put in storage and almost forgotten.

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The Grey Zone (2001)

Basic Story: The prisoners of Auschwitz who are forced to work in the crematoria, the Sonderkommando, plan a revolt to destroy the ovens while struggling with the ethics of working there.

Fan Thoughts: Originally written as a play by Tim Blake Nelson (O, Brother Where Art Thou?, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), based on the book: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli; Nelson later adapted his play for the screen.  There is a harshness throughout the film that is pulled directly from the source material, and a unrelenting directness in its depiction.  While unflinching in showing the brutality of day to day life in the camp, the story is focused in on the moral dilemmas that each of the characters grapple with within their roles in the crematorium.  The dialogue is fairly informal, quick and conversational, addressing the choices at hand rather than the philosophical conversations that often happen in these films.  The larger issues of the choices being made and if there really is such a thing as a choice in that situation are instead left for the viewer to consider.  While several reviews I read commented on how the story is bleak from beginning to end, I think it is important to recognize that while the story does not have an uplifting ending, the prisoners did manage to destroy two of the crematoria which certainly limited the number of people being killed, and that act is something that should not be diminished.  While the heaviness of the subject is not for everyone, it is an excellently crafted, thought provoking, and ultimately haunting film.

Warnings: torture on-screen, executions on-screen, dead bodies on screen

Available On: Tubi, Sling, Crackle, Prime Video, Vudu

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PopSugar Reading Challenge #36: A Book Written by an Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated Person

"Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Holocaust books are always tough, but I believe remembering those events is important - to prevent them from happening again as well as to honor the memories of those who needlessly died.

"Auschwitz" is a very straightforward telling of what happened in the infamous concentration camp. The author states right away that he is a doctor, not a writer, and the book can feel cold and unfeeling just like you might expect doctor's medical notes to feel. And yet, the horrors described don't need emotion. They are terrible enough on their own, just the facts. And there are certainly plenty of facts here. For anyone who is familiar with the history of the Holocaust, the events are not surprising. But being able to see them from the perspective of someone who was there confirms the worst of what we've been told of Nazi Germany.

"The minute I entered this place I had the feeling I was already one of the living-dead. But now, in possession of all these fantastic secrets, I was certain I would never get out alive."

I hesitate to say I enjoyed the book; it's just not a pleasant topic. However, I feel I gained further understanding of this time in history, and that makes the read worth it.

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12, 19

12) did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

I definitely liked some more than others I will say my classes were SUPER basic, there are some books a lot of my college classmates had read that I'd never heard of. My high school education as a whole was incredibly hit or miss (like... we missed WWI and WWII in one of my Social Studies classes because the teacher thought it was more important for us to watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing Hillary and Sarah skits instead if teaching us. I wish I was kidding). Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Clockwork Orange, The Price of My Soul, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, are probably the top five that stuck with me for a long time.

19) most disliked popular books?

*insert most popular ya books here* It's not even me being edgy I just largely don't and didn't read a lot of that genre. Even some of the ones I had liked as a young adult upon revisiting are like unreadable (Uglies, Pretties, and Specials I am looking at you). I think it is one of those genres you either love or you are whatever about. I'm mainly whatever about it.

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Guardian Essential Library

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Annals by Tacitus

The Armada by Garrett Mattingly

Aubrey's brief lives by John Aubrey

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Beethoven's Letters by Ludwig van Beethoven

Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould

C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... by John Diamond

Candide by Voltaire

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh

Collected Poems by Edward Thomas

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The complete poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Danube by Claudio Magris

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Diaries by Alan Clark

Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain by Miranda France

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter

Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake

Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin

Experience by Martin Amis

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The Glenn Gould Reader by Glenn Gould

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi

If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

In Siberia by Colin Thubron

In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel

Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition by Igor Stravinsky

Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban

On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Orwell and Politics (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

Politics by Aristotle

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Prelude by William Wordsworth

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons

Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Writings [Oxford World's Classics] by William Hazlitt

The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich

Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond

Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey

Troilus and Cressida; A Love Poem in Five Books by Geoffrey Chaucer

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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Bookhaul June 2022

New books:

The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession

The Faceless Woman

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Winter Rose

In the Forests of Serre

Ombria in Shadow

Alphabet of Thorn

Riddle-Master

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville

The Changeling Sea

When Women Were Dragons

All the Horses of Iceland

Šikmý kostel: románová kronika ztraceného města

Šikmý kostel 2: románová kronika ztraceného města

Katherine of Aragón, The True Queen

Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen

Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets

Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen

Ordinary Monsters

Lit for Little Hands: Jane Eyre

The Half Life of Valery K

Second-hand books:

Vánoce v české kultuře

Gretel and the Dark

Wise Children

A Darker Shade of Magic

A Gathering of Shadows

A Conjuring of Light

Frost in May

The House on the Strand

King Charles II

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work

The Giver Quartet Omnibus

It Ends With Us

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Bookwyrm readathon: Day 3 Dragon’s Wisdom

Some dragons are known for being bloodthirsty and terrifying. Other dragons are known for the wisdom they have to share. Share a book, author, or booklr recommendation.

Books: Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris. Historical fiction and mystery part of the Sebastian St. Cyr Series. It can also work as a stand alone. I was already pretty into it before I realized it was part of a series :))

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke. Historical fiction, fantasy. A brick of a book

Flicker by Theodore Roszak. A thriller with movie conspiracy theories. I suggest skipping the first 100 pages or so. I almost gave it up because it bore me to death in the beginning

Watershp Down by Richard Adams. Fantasy novel about bunnies, but with themes serious and dark enough that they are not fit for children

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King - Danny from The Shinning grew up, but he can’t take a break

And for Romanian readers Toate Panzele Sus! ( All Sails up!) by Radu Tudoran. I cannot recommend this book enough! An adventure book about traveling the world via boat in order to discover and map an uncharted territory. Unfortunately I do not this it was ever translated din English

Authors: John Saul - thriller and psychological thriller. Thanks to this dude I manage to go through Stephen King’s books

Jo Nesbo - thriller, mystery, beautiful flawed characters

Leigh Bardugo - probably my favorite YA author and Kaz Brekker is definitely one of my top 3 favorite characters

Again a  mention for Romanian readers, Goerge Arion. He writes books based during the communist regime, but they are quite enjoyable, at least some of them. He blends mystery and humor and his main character, Andrei Mladin is quite sarcastic and witty. Again, I do not think his books have been translated.

Bookblrs: @books-and-cookies, @thevajunglebook, @ihaveseenthedragons they are just sooo lovely! And probably not a bookblr, but rather a writeblr @artattemptswriting I’ve learned a lot just by reading his posts ^_^

Reading update:

History is All You Left Me: done

The Raven Boys: done

Perks of Being a Wallflower: page 52 of 231. I am not enjoying this. he writting bugs me. I might DNF it and replace it with Auschwitz A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli. This has roughly 160-170 pages long so it will fit one of the dragon challenges and will also prepare me for the not so easy reading I will have to do for my disertation

The Song of Achilles: page 40 of 253. I really like the fact that this is a bildungsroman and I get to see them grow up together and connect ^^

I was feeling quite under the weather today so I did not manage to read that much T_T

Join the readathon ^_^

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Slept in a little bit so I couldn’t walk this morning (it was the cat’s fault though, who am I to deny her cuddles for selfish reasons like exercise?) but I read a little bit of Powerful by Patty McCord before work.

Work went well, I’m making good progress on a really big problem. It feels like it’s going really slowly but I think it’s just A Lot™. 

After work I helped Bryan in the garden a little, then went for a walk. After I got home I went to Taco Bell to grab some dinner, then got on Runescape with Alex for a little bit. Then went to bed.

Since my last update, I finished Radical Candor, and also read Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 6: Who Run the World? Squirrels by Ryan North, and Ms. Marvel Vol. 8: Mecca by G. Willow Wilson. 

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Gold teeth

Gold teeth are a form of dental prosthesis. They are sometimes used for cosmetic purposes. Dentists have used gold for filling cavities (before mercury amalgam became available), for crowns, and for other purposes since ancient times. Gold is malleable, nearly immune to corrosion, and hard enough to form a biting surface that can be used for years. Gold was used before silver became available and has continued to be used for specialized purposes. Dental restorations are often made from a combination of precious metals. Burning of bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Sonderkommando prisoners after removal of gold teeth In Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, concentration camp survivor Dr. Miklós Nyiszli (who served on Dr. Josef Mengele's medical kommando) describes the "tooth-pulling kommando". These teams of eight, all "fine stomatologists and dental surgeons" equipped "in one hand with a lever, and in the other a pair of pliers for extracting teeth", worked in the crematoria. Stationed in front of the ovens, their job was to pry open the mouths of prisoners who had been gassed and extract, or break off, "all gold teeth, as well as any gold bridgework and fillings". The teeth were collected and stored at the camp before being sent on to the Reichsbank to be melted down and converted into gold bullion, which could then be sold on with no trace of its origin. Gold teeth were first present in America during the Jim Crow era. Originally it had become a tradition in Louisiana and around the Mississippi Delta after the slave trade. During Jim Crow it was believed[by whom?] that many African Americans who were former slaves began getting the gold caps to replace their rotting teeth. It later became a symbol of wealth and freedom for the slaves that once worked on the plantations fields in south Louisiana. African Americans who had money would get gold caps as flaunted by Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion. Bootleggers and pimps sported gold teeth during that time as well. After 1980, gold inlays and gold foil work became rare in the United States. In the late 1980s they were popularized in New York by Brooklyn native Mike Tyson, who got gold caps in mimicking his idol Jack Johnson. Rappers such as Rakim and Slick Rick began to sport gold grills instead of permanent gold teeth. This trend lasted in New York for ten years. Gold teeth in South Africa has become part of the South African fashion culture. Gold teeth are very popular in the country with people getting permanent gold teeth from as young as 12 years old. Gold teeth became a big trend in South Africa in the late 1960s among the Coloured and Black South African communities. Permanent Gold teeth in South Africa is not considered a sign of wealth like in other countries, but a fashion trend. Since the end of Apartheid in many white Afrikaans people and Indian people in the country have also started getting permanent gold teeth. The trend of permanent gold teeth is so big in South Africa that many politicians, celebrities and even pastors have them. In many regions of the world, including some parts of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus Regions, gold teeth are also worn as a status symbol. They are considered a symbol of wealth and sometimes installed in the place of healthy teeth or as crowns over filed-down healthy teeth. Grills, false tooth covers made of metal, have become a popular hip hop fashion in the United States since the 1980s. In the early 2000s, Grills were popularized in hip hop videos by Nelly, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Paul Wall, and other rappers from the south. The gold grills are still being sported by rappers in various colors. Grills were also worn by Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, and Madonna. While some rap musicians have had their gold teeth permanently attached to existing teeth, most people who purchase them for aesthetic purposes opt for removable gold teeth caps. In 2005, Nelly released the rap single "Grillz" which promotes the dental apparatus. Gold teeth have appeared in characters conveyed through many different forms of entertainment media

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Dr. Josef Mengele,  “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele was born on March 16th, 1911 to Karl and Walburga Mengele in Gunzburg, Germany near Ulm. He was the eldest of three brothers. Dr. Mengele earned a Phd in physical anthropology at the University of Munich and soon after (January of 1937)  became an assistant to Dr. Otmar Von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. Dr. Von Verschuer was infamous for his research and studies on twins, a study that impacted Dr. Mengele immensely. In 1937, Dr. Mengele joined the nazi party and the following year, joined the SS and then received a medical degree. Now, there is Unsure documentation of the events that took place during the times of 1937 through 1943. However, throughout these years, Dr. Mengele was drafted into the army and joined the Waffen-SS, or the Armed-SS, had a clear first function as a medical expert for the Race and Settlement Main Office, and served as a medical officer with the SS division “Wiking” when the SS Pioneer battalion V faced action on the eastern front. Dr. Mengele returned back to Germany, wounded, in 1943. During his recovery, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for anthropology, human genetics, and Eugenics. During the summer of 1943, he was promoted to SS Captain and was transferred to Auschwitz on May 30th, 1943. He became the “Chief Camp Physician” at Auschwitz Birkenau In November and then started to perform lethal and agonizing tests on many Jewish and Roma/Gypsy children and twins. Under his Chief name, he had the full license to maim, torture, and kill subjects. Dr. Josef Mengele was responsible for many things, Including the Gypsy death camp at Birkenau. Alongside of this death camp, he also was responsible for performing “Selections” (The choice of which Jewish people lived, died, and were tested on), and often came off-duty for the search of twins. He specifically had a fascination with twins, heterochromia (A condition in which an individual’s two irises differ in color), and Noma (gangrene that infects the mucous membrane of the mouth and other tissue). He firmly endorsed nationalist and socialist racial theory and tried to demonstrate the degeneration of Gypsy and Jewish bloodline. During January 1945, Mengele fled Auschwitz as the Soviet Union approached. He Stayed at Gross-Rosen for a few weeks until its evacuation, then traveled west to avoid his capture from Soviet Union. His name was listed on the Wanted War Criminals. The US captured Mengele and unknowingly released him. Under false papers he worked as a farmhand in Rosenheim, Bavaria from 1945 to 1949.The warrant for his arrest was put out in 1959, 14 years after WW2 ended. In 1960, Mengele ran away to Paraguay and then to Brazil, where he then resided. Josef Mengele suffered a stroke while swimming and was buried under the name Wolfgang Gerhard. He eluded his captors for 34 years and was never caught. His former assistant Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a prisoner-physician, was under duress and was forced to assist Dr. Mengele. He later published “Auschwitz: A doctor’s eyewitness account” in his native hungarian language in 1946, and in english in 1960. Mengele conducted numerous experiments and has more than 1,000 deaths on his hands in the short 21 months he spent there. His most memorable experiments and acts of cruelty are listed below. ~ He once gassed 750 women whose block was infected with lice. ~ Killed all of the Jews from a transport by gas after a mother scratched and bit the doctor after he moved her away from her 13 year old daughter. ~ Collected the eyes of the deceased patients to further experiment and “research” artificially changing eye color and eye pigmentation. ~Performed an open autopsy on a One year old baby. ~Injected unknown chemicals and dyes into the eyes of children in hope to change eye color - which often led to complete blindness and excruciating pain. ~Removed organs and limbs, performed sex change operations, and performed other surgeries without anesthesia. ~Castrated boys ~Researched how long it took to freeze to death and the effects of freezing. ~Performed incestuous impregnations. ~Stood on pregnant women with full force and timed how long it took until the body miscarried and expelled the unborn baby. ~Tested unknown, illegal drugs on subjects. ~Put subjects through isolation endurance and then also studied their reaction to various stimuli. ~Injected subjects with lethal germs. ~Were placed in pressure chambers. His studies on Twins: ~Drew blood from twins until they died. ~Transfused blood from one twin to another ~Sew two gypsy children together to create siamese twins. However, they passed away due to a severely bad infection of gangrene in their hands after their veins were resected. ~Injected chloroform into the hearts of 14 pairs of twins and then dissected every single body and took note of each part. ~He would inject one twin with a deadly virus and then kill the other to compare organ tissue during their autopsy. The Ovitz Family: The Ovitz family is the largest family of Dwarves ever on record. Prior to WW2, they had been a sort of Vaudeville Act - The Lilliput Troupe. They would travel around Europe and sing folk songs in several languages. They also Happened to be Jewish. In 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz and were specifically chosen to be experimented on by Dr. Mengele. ~He would take blood samples and bone marrow samples daily. ~He would inject chemicals into their eyes which led to almost immediate blindness. ~He would pull on their hair and teeth daily. ~Ear drip torture. ~Subjects were even stripped in front of audiences and researchers during lectures and analysis. 12 members of the Ovitz clan survived WW2 - the largest family group to do so. They headed back to their hometown of Romania before they settled permanently in the newly created Israel.

Over the course of 21 months, 3,000 twins were murdered. We will never truly know the extent to his gruesome and inhumane psychological and physical experiments.

-Chaotic Evil.