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the lower jaw (Angel of Death). Josef Mengele obtained his doctorate degree and published scientific articles on genetic abnormalities and racial variations in primary features (Astor 11). In 1937, Dr. Mengele became an official member of the Nazi party, which was led by Adolf Hitler (Angel of Death). One year later, he joined the Schutzstaffel branch of the German army. The purpose of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, was to protect leaders of the Nazi party (Astor 21). Josef was wounded while fighting in

Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist. In 1894, Suk composed a piece of his works called A Winter’s Tale Op. 9, which was based on Shakespeare. In the beginning years of his career, he was influenced by Antonin Dvorak, who was Suk’s professor at a music academy called Prague Conservatory. In 1898, Josef Suk ended up marrying Otilie Dvorak, who was the daughter of Antonin Dvorak. Within the happy life they lived together, Otilie was impressed with her fathers and husbands works of music and

In 1940 Auschwitz was established in the suburbs of Oswiecim. Oswiecim is a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Auschwitz was established because there were too many Polish people in the local prisons. In 1942 Auschwitz became a death camp and it was the largest known. (http://auschwitz.org/, n.d.) The camp was expanded throughout its existence, this resulted in Auschwitz consisting of three camps. The three camps were Main Camp, Birkenau, and Monowitz. Main Camp was known

Life in Concentration Camps The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Their experiences in the concentration camps have many similarities as

Josef Mengele is one of the world’s most known Auschwitz scientists. Although his experiments were gruesome and evil, we learned much about the human body. We came out of WWII knowing much more about genetics because of Dr. Mengele’s experiments. In WWII, Dr. Mengele, nicknamed “Angel of Death”, used Nazi concentration camps to perform scientific experiments on “undesirables”, through using; children, undesirables, and extermination. Josef Mengele’s main interest was children. During Auschwitz

Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany. Mengele is most famous for studying twins. He studied Jewish and gypsy twins, wanting to make them more like the Aryan race. To do this, he injected chemicals into their eyes to make them blue, pretended to be nice to children so they would let him do this. In addition, Mengele drew blood from twins, taking so much from some that they bled to death. After these twins had died, he would dissect their bodies. In one experiment, he sewed

Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Could you imagine living in an environment where your experimented on, beaten, worked? That’s what life was like in Ravensbruck. It’s important for women to know the hardships the women of Ravensbruck went through. Ravensbruck was specifically made for women. Ravensbruck wasn't made as just another camp for the Jewish it was used for much more. Ravensbruck opened in 1939, and housed 90,000 women when the camp was liberated. Most of the women were Polish, German, and

There were many doctors in concentration camps during World War II, but no one can top what Josef Mengele did to the people. Killing over thousands of people, Doctor Mengele did things like freezing their bodies, gassing, giving shots in their eyes, and so many more. Even though his experiments were harsh, it helped us advance in our genetics research today. Doctor Mengele killed lots of men, women, and kids during his experiments, though his main focus was on experiments and research related

Jarell Reyes Mr.Flanagan Josef Mengele “The Angel of Death” Many of Josef Mengele victims recall him as a sweet, almost father like figure. When visiting his child subjects, he introduced himself as "Uncle Mengele" and offered them sweets. Many of these children knew that Dr.Mengele would either be there savior or their death. Mengele's research subjects were better fed and housed than other prisoners and temporarily safe from the gas chambers but how can such a man be capable of acting so sweet

Josef Mengele Fifteen years ago the world let out a sigh of relief with the discovery of 208 bones and a few rags. For over forty years survivors of the Nazi death camps known as Auschwitz were haunted by the vision of the handsome, well dressed man with a caring smile who pointed his white-gloved finger either left or right deciding who lived (at least for the moment) and who died. Those who passed this man and survived have always remembered the man known as the Angel of Death. These