György Kun, right, and his brother Istvan - Courtesy of family György Kun, who has died aged 93, was one of the last Hungarian survivors of the infamous experiments carried out on twins at Auschwitz ...
The testimony appears in Lowy’s new book, Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz, recently published to coincide with Jewish Book Week. Speaking from his home in Vancouver, Canada, Lowy ...
When asked about his youth, my father deflected or minimised. As he aged, fragments surfaced: references to my aunt, his twin sister, Miriam; mentions of a camp; descriptions of medical procedures ...
The documentary features survivors who sing the praises of their guardian angel Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, a Hungarian Jewish prisoner ordered to look after them. Spiegel’s daughter, Judith Richter, also ...
Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944. Seared into his memory was their encounter with the Nazi physician he ...
Mengele was one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on twins and dwarves at the Auschwitz concentration camp and killed children with lethal injections. He ...
In a new biography, David G. Marwell tells the whole story of the notorious Nazi, down to the discovery of his bones. By Steven Aschheim Organizers sought to put a spotlight on the stories of ...
An undated photo of the entrance to the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland. Credit - Bettmann Archive The documentary features survivors who sing the praises of their ...