Josef Mengele
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Film & TV He saved dozens of kids in Auschwitz — and kept it a secret for nearly the rest of his life
The PBS documentary ‘The Last Twins’ tells the story of Erno Spiegel, who was targeted by Josef Mengele and protected the young people subjected to the Nazi doctor's experiments.
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Culture How ‘antisemitic morons’ tried to create a Jew-free world in Paraguay
'Nueva Germania' was the brainchild of Bernhard Förster, much to the consternation of his brother-in-law Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fast Forward The Lancet recommends mandatory Holocaust education to improve medical ethics
British medical journal says doctors’ roles in carrying out Nazi atrocities are a cautionary tale for today
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Fast Forward René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84
Slotkin and his sister were among just 200 sets of twins to survive gruesome experimentation by the infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele at Auschwitz
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Community Why Are We Still Honoring Nazis For Their Medical Discoveries?
Medical eponyms, honorary names the medical community gives to those who make a medical discovery or create an invention in the field, are very common. They include Crohn’s disease, named after Burrill Bernard Crohn, one of the scientists who first published an exhaustive description of the condition about the disease. But unfortunately, eponyms honoring Nazi…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Explains Why She Forgave Dr. Mengele
A Holocaust survivor explained in a video for BuzzFeed that has been watched more than 40 million times why she forgave the Nazi doctor who experimented on her and her twin sister. Eva Mozes Kor and her family were deported from Romania to Auschwitz in May 1944. She and her twin sister Miriam were saved…
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Fast Forward Mossad Will Release New Info On Hunt For Josef Mengele
The Mossad will next week publish three volumes of documents related to its efforts to capture Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who performed experiments on Jewish inmates at Auschwitz. Mengele fled Europe after World War II, and was pursued by the Israeli spy service to South America, where he took up residence in…
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Culture Maybe I Tried Too Hard To Save A Holocaust Survivor
Mrs. Zelnick’s lips were blue, her eyes glazed over, and her oxygen saturation at 70%. But her nails had been done earlier that week and were a lovely shade of crimson. Her hair, although slightly mussed from the pillows, had not lost its set. Even in her dazed state, she possessed dignity and grace. I…
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