Forgiving Dr. Mengele

Celeste Davis Mrs. Reynolds Adv Hon English 16 February 2017 Eva Mozes Kor: A Holocaust Survivor Eva Mozes Kor survived one of the most terrifying events in history--the Holocaust, the genocidal killing of millions of people targeted by Nazi Germany. In March 1944, soldiers forced Eva, her twin sister, Miriam, and their family away from their home in Romania. They were deported to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Eva and Miriam were taken from their family to join nearly 3000 pairs of twins. Eva, Miriam, and the 3000 others would endure the torturous medical experiments of German doctor Josef Mengele. Mengele has been nicknamed “The Angel of Death” for his orchestrations of gas chambers…

While most scientific experiments in the Holocaust left the subjects scarred or dead, Dr. Mengele took interest in a certain family and caused them no physical problems. This was a rather large family of dwarfs, the Ovitzs, and since Dr. Mengele “had only one family of dwarfs, he was careful not to put their lives at risk” (Koren 33). To prevent the Ovitz family from being trampled to death or catching illnesses, the family had its own living space and a “washbasin” and “chamber pot” all to…

I read the novel named Night by Elie Wiesel. After reading this novel, I understood that there were various lessons that you could take. The moral that I took from this heartbreaking novel is one which nobody will have the capacity to overlook; when faced with racism and prejudice, religious faith can be shaken. The characters that represent this theme in the story are Elie Wiesel, the author of this nonfiction autobiography, Elie’s father, Moishe the Beadle, Idek and Dr. Josef Mengele. All of…

Dr. Josef Mengele Josef Mengele was a ruthless man who did not care for humanity. He had no mercy for the people he heartlessly abused. He was a very cruel and pitiless man. He did so many things that physically, mentally, and emotionally affected the lives of Jews. The most common thing that he did was testing on twin children. He often tested their minds or physical features. He was fascinated by twin children. Josef Mengele grew up somewhat normal. He was the oldest of 3 sons. He had a…

Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death Josef Mengele was an important and influential person in history that had a negative impact on the world because he medically experimented on the members of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany into a wealthy family. His father, Karl Mengele, owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. His mother, Walburga Mengele, was very demanding and had a very short temper (“The Life of Josef…

At the German concentration camps, Josef Mengele, conducted depraved experiments by developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses. Many of the people he performed experiments on were Jews and twins. Most of them were tested against their will. He and other doctors performed many experiments, such as the malaria experiments, mustard gas experiments, pharmaceutical testing, spotted fever (typhus) experiments, sulfanilamide experiments, and experiments with…

given was actually made out of human flesh. (Caplan 6) Although they were given food, many people still faced starvation. Based on the needs of the people and the labor that they were doing, the amount of food they were given did not provide the proper amount of nutrition needed to keep their bodies healthy. This also served as a problem after the camps were liberated, due to people overeating and bursting their stomachs. In total, there were twenty-six large concentration camps and twenty-five…

The Holocaust took six million Jews’ lives. The nazis and Adolf Hitler were in control. There were many concentration camps that took place during this prejudice time. Most people suffered. There were many causes of death. During the year of 1944, Elie and his family were taken into Auschwitz, a traumatizing concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the theme as humanity vs. inhumanity. First, the SS men took away the prisoners’ names, including Elie’s.They also called them…

Horror At Michigan State University A year ago most Americans would not have had any idea who Dr. Larry Nassar was and what he did but today he is the most despised man in America. He was a well respected doctor at Michigan State University who for many years sexually assaulting young women in his role as the lead doctor for United States Gymnastics. Many since they were little girls. More than 265 women were sexually assaulted by Nassar and about half of them testified at his sentencing. Which…

He does not doubt God's existence, he questions his justice since there is no help. The SS holds a selection for the Jews. Dr. Mengele, the angel of death, decides the fate of their lives once again. Elie passes and his father does not. His father later proves his usefulness to the SS officers and escapes death. In the winter, Elie's foot swells up due to the cold, and he has to get operated on. Elie is warned that he will die if he stays in the hospital for too long. Elie panics that his leg…