How Did Josef Mengele Affect His Family

“He cut into me, without anesthetic,...The pain was indescribable. I felt every slice of the knife. Then I saw my kidney pulsating in his hand. I cried like a madman, I cried out the prayer; “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one...And I prayed to die, that I might not suffer this agony any more.” (Hall). This was said by a ‘patient’ of Dr. Josef Mengele, Mr. Yitzhak Ganon. Mr. Ganon was of the survivors of the inhumane experiments that took place in Auschwitz by the hand of the abominable man that is Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele was one of the most infamous men associated with the Holocaust, his cruel experiments on twins, jews, gypsies, and the other being held at Auschwitz made him widely known for his cruelty, warranting him the title of “The Angel of Death".

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

Josef Mengele was a Doctor and a Official from Germany he was know as the angel of death. He was born in march 16th 1911. Mengele was the eldest of three brothers and he was always a good student. In January of 1937 was assistant of doctor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer. He was a scientist who studied genetics which had a great interest in twins. Mengele then wrote a thesis about Cleft lip and cleft palate, qualified very well which made Josef get a doctorate in medicine. Year later mengele married Irene Schönbein with whom she contracted her only son named Rolf. During the year 1937 and 1938 Mengele joined the Nazi party and also the SS. Some months after the Second World War in 1949 Mengele volunteered for the medical service of the Walffen-SS (They were the elite fighting body of the Schutzstaffel). Then sent a request for the service of the transfer to the concentration

Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor stationed at Auschwitz, was called the “Angel of Death”. Many times he would be the one who was in charge of “selection”. He had the power to decide the fate of the prisoner; he had the power of life and death over them. He was in charge of the many experiments conducted at Auschwitz. The experiments he is most known for are genetic experiments, and the experimentations on twins. (Josef Mengele)

The Holocaust is arguably one of the biggest genocide in world history when between five and six million Jews were killed. Most were killed by gas or by firing squad or by simply being burned. But some of the Jews were victims of the doctors during the Holocaust. One of the most famous doctors during this time was Dr. Mengele, he was responsible for most of the deaths caused by experiments during the time. His career began at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, where he became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, a leading scientific figure widely known for his research with twins. In 1947 he joined the Nazi party and the next year he joined the SS. He wasn't the only doctor during the time though there

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

In the “Children of the Flames,” the authors Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel argued that Josef Mengele had a normal childhood, and didn’t start to become interested in his evil practices until after college. The authors first start out by telling the audience a bit about themselves and their credentials. Then they go into the background of Dr. Josef Mengele.

When Hitler came to power, things changed in Europe. Adolf spread Concentration camps around Europe. He used a system for the killings. The prisoners could get shot to death, buried alive, sent to crematorium, or sent to the gas chambers. Most of this happened in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele selected prisoners for the gas chambers in Auschwitz. He also would do cruel experiments on prisoners (mainly twins). He was called the Angel of Death for his cruel and disgusting experiments. “He enlisted in the Nazi stormtroopers in 1993 and joined the newly founded institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene the next year.” (Mengele

Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had

Josef Mengele, a demoralized Nazi doctor and scientist is known for his frightful human experiments during the holocaust. Mengele generally studied and examined twin children and other human experimentation. Due to these events, Josef Mengele's nickname was "The Angel of Death".

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical

Some of these camps also had facilities for scientific research, where men like Josef Mengle, also known as "The Angel of Death", performed barbaric medical experiments on twins, dwarfs, and other genetically different people in advancing and breeding the so-called "Aryan" race of perfect Germans for Hitler.

a. Attention Getter: Josef Mengele, Angel of Death, the man that ordered the death of around 1.6 million people. Men, women, old, or young, no one was an exception. At the point of a finger they were sent to the gas chambers. Prisoners learned quickly that he was someone whose orders were to be followed without argument. Names such as Lord of Life and Death, Dr. Auschwitz and even God were commonly used by

Josef Mengele/Medical Experimentation – Josef Mengele was a Physician for the SS and he was later a Physician in concentration camps. Mengele was the Physician who chose which person got to be killed or went to work. He was very obsessed with twins. He made experiments on these twins and later these experiments were known as the “Medical Experimentation”. At first he could not kill anyone but later he had the authority to and did many cruel experiments to twins. Mengele was also obsessed with people who had two different color eyes. (USHMM)