The Life-Saving Women Doctors of Auschwitz - FHSU Scholars Repository
The Life-Saving Women Doctors of Auschwitz - FHSU Scholars Repository Josef Mengele’s Experiment his sinister medical experiments during World War II that mostly involved the horrific treatment of twins. In 1943 at Auschwitz, Mengele selected children for his deadly experiments. Renate Gutmann was a twin and Mengele survivor. In a haunting account, she recalls: “I was separated from my brother and mother and taken to a hospital where I was measured and X-rayed; blood was taken from my neck. Once, I was strapped to a table and cut with a knife. I got injections that made me throw up and have diarrhea. While ill in the hospital after an injection, guards came in to take the sick to be killed.” The total victim count is unknown but witnesses revealed that Mengele killed as many as 14 twins in just one night through injecting chloroform into their hearts. After the war, he evaded prosecution by escaping to South America where he died from a stroke aged 67-years-old in 1979. Josef Rudolf Me...