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TWINS

Dr. Josef Menegles Obsession

The Obsession

The

Obsession

Before World War Two Dr. Mengele was the assistant of Von Verschues, who studied twins at the Institute for Heredity and Biology and Radical Hygene in Frankfurt.

Why?

Why Was He So Obsessed?

Mengele was always fascinated with the differences between identical and fraternal twins. Identical twins come from the same egg so they have the same genetic information. Whereas fraternal twins are two genetically different children that came from two different eggs. He was also interested with how genetic diseases originated and affected the twins. He wanted to show the advantage of heredity and finding ways to increase German reproduction rates. The difference from the lab to the camps were that it did not matter how many people or children died in the experimentation projects.

The Cause

The reason that Dr. Mengele studied twins is because it helped him figure out how diseases affected people and which cures work. One of their goals was to be 100% sure that a mother would give birth to a baby with blonde hair and blue eyes. They believed that this would solve all of their problems.

The

Cause

What Effect Did This Have On The Twins?

The Effect

The experiments were gruesome. Some experiments included surgeries with no anesthesia. They would do amputations, castrations, and organ removal. Other experiments involved trying to change eye color to blue. They would put drops or injections of chemicals into their eyes. This could cause severe pain and sometimes blindness. Random injections also occured. They would be given injections into the spine and sometimes spinal taps with no anesthisia. They would purposley inject disease into one twin and if the twin injected died then they would kill the other one to examine what the disease did to the twin.

Vera Kriegel moved to Israel with her mom when the war was over. Seventy years later, she says she still has nightmares. Jona Laks became an activist, the leader of a group of Mengele twins. She went back to Auschwitz numerous times, and says what she experienced there has never left her mind.

Surviving The Angel of Death

Literature

I read halfway through the book Surviving the Angel of Death by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa R Buccieri. I got some really good inside information that came from a twin in Aushwitz. Eva Kor said,¨surviving is a full-time job.¨ She needed to live for herself and her identical twin sister Miriam.

How Is This Related?

How is this

related?

This book tells a story of what it is like to be a twin in Auschwitz. It tells how infested their barracks were with headlice and fleas. How the rats were the size of small dogs. But no one dared to harm the Mengele twins unless given orders from Mengele himself to do so. Eva tells stories of how they injected her with some sort of disease, which she does not know to this day. When they injected her they sent her to an infirmary. It is a spot where they send dying people before they are to be gassed. The twins had a small room but only three of them shared, which was a blessing. Everyone else was just piled in. Waiting to be gassed. The trucks came every day to take whoever was next in line to be gassed and they would be piled onto that truck. Some alive, half alive or even dead. It did not matter. They were all gonna be dead by the end. Eva was supposed to die of whatever disease Mengele gave her but miraculously she survived. She learned how to read a thermometer and when the doctors would take her temperature every day she took the thermometer

out from her arm to make it seem as

though she had no fever.

Personal Connections

Connections

The reason I picked this topic is because I saw someone speaking about her experiences at Aushwitz with Dr. Mengele and the twin experiments. I actually watched the whole video where she talked about the effects World War Two had on her. My great grandfather also fought in World War Two.

Eva and Connections

Family That Fought

Eva Kor was actually the one I saw telling her story on social media one day. She said that she wrote a book about all of her experiences at Auschwitz. Which was ¨Surviving The Angel of Death¨ weirdly the book I chose for the literature part of my presentation was just that book. I would 100% recommend this book to anyone that is mature enough to understand all of the events and be able to comprehend everything that happened in the Holocaust. Eva was part of the experiments where the twins were forced to undress fully and sit or lay on a table. She said¨For me that was the most dehumanizing part.¨ Eva also talked about when she did not die like she was supposed to Dr. Mengele injected a disease into Mirriam, her sister. They later found out that the disease was supposed to stunt kidney growth. Miriam´s kidneys would only grow to be the size of a ten-year olds.

My great grandfather fought in World War Two. He flew fighter jets. He flew a B-24 bomber plane. This plane was really designed to do long distance bombing attacks on the enemies rear. They were supposed to fly in tight formation with the B-17 planes.

You have to be really smart in order to control the B-24 bomber planes. If you were to fall just a little bit out of formation it messed everything else up. My great grandfather Jordan Johnson passed away in 2017. That is why I will never forget his place in World War Two.

Works Cited

Walker, Andy. "The twins of Auschwitz." BBC News, BBC News , 28 Jan. 2015,

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718.

SECONDARY SOURCE

Blakemore, Erin. "Why the Nazis Were Obsessed With Twins." History Stories, History, 8 July 2019,

www.history.com/news/nazi-twin-experiments-mengele-eugenics.

SECONDARY SOURCE

Kor, Eva M., and Lisa R. Buccieri. Surviving the Angel of Death. Tanglewood, 2009, pp. 37-208,

www.ginatxsboe1.com/uploads/1/2/5/5/12552697/surviving_the_angel_of_death_and_teacher_guide-_tanglewood_publishing.pdf.

PRIMARY SOURCE

Works Cited

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