Experiments of Inhumanity
For the few that know about Dr. Josef Mengele, it’s concluded that he was responsible for The Selections. Selections took place when men were separated from women and children. Then a Nazi would look over them to see if they were healthy or not. With the simple words of “Left or Right”, the fate of the people rested in his hands, but he was responsible for so much more. Mengele killed almost 5,000 prisoners from experimentation or murder to conduct mortem examination. Mengele was known for having a fascination with twins, but also experimented on dwarfs, giants, and Romas. Not only did Dr. Mengele kill many innocent people, but he also affected the lives of the ones who survived as well.
The victims of Dr. Mengele who survived stories were shared to reveal the horrors of the Holocaust. The three victims are Jona Laks, Vera Kriegel, and Motti Alon. Two of these three people have a twin and the other is a dwarf. Jona Laks, a teenager at the time was automatically sent to the Gas chamber, until her sister notified Mengele that they were twins. Jona was sent to the Laboratory …show more content…
He was forced to watch one of Mengele’s experiments that included a dwarf and a Roma. Motti said, “the dwarfs arms and legs did not function properly, and they brought this Roma woman. She was forced to lay down on the floor they put the dwarf on top of her and forced them to have sex. They made us all watch, we were not allowed to move our heads”, he said. “If we’d look away, they’d shoot us. Mr. Levy died the next day. Maybe he was ill or maybe this killed him”. Motti also remembers him and his brother having a tattooed numbered on his arm. The tattooist had messed up, “Instead of writing 17 they wrote 10 so they erased and did some dots”. Motti is an eyewitness of how far Mengele would go to get positive results from an experiment. Motti now lives in Israel, he says, “I have no traumas, not from
For the few that know about Dr. Josef Mengele, it’s concluded that he was responsible for The Selections. Selections took place when men were separated from women and children. Then a Nazi would look over them to see if they were healthy or not. With the simple words of “Left or Right”, the fate of the people rested in his hands, but he was responsible for so much more. Mengele killed almost 5,000 prisoners from experimentation or murder to conduct mortem examination. Mengele was known for having a fascination with twins, but also experimented on dwarfs, giants, and Romas. Not only did Dr. Mengele kill many innocent people, but he also affected the lives of the ones who survived as well.
The victims of Dr. Mengele who survived stories were shared to reveal the horrors of the Holocaust. The three victims are Jona Laks, Vera Kriegel, and Motti Alon. Two of these three people have a twin and the other is a dwarf. Jona Laks, a teenager at the time was automatically sent to the Gas chamber, until her sister notified Mengele that they were twins. Jona was sent to the Laboratory …show more content…
He was forced to watch one of Mengele’s experiments that included a dwarf and a Roma. Motti said, “the dwarfs arms and legs did not function properly, and they brought this Roma woman. She was forced to lay down on the floor they put the dwarf on top of her and forced them to have sex. They made us all watch, we were not allowed to move our heads”, he said. “If we’d look away, they’d shoot us. Mr. Levy died the next day. Maybe he was ill or maybe this killed him”. Motti also remembers him and his brother having a tattooed numbered on his arm. The tattooist had messed up, “Instead of writing 17 they wrote 10 so they erased and did some dots”. Motti is an eyewitness of how far Mengele would go to get positive results from an experiment. Motti now lives in Israel, he says, “I have no traumas, not from