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Fani Grinwald (née Hirschberger) was born in the small Czech of Radvanec in 1869. She was Jewish, the daughter of Meir and Malka Hirschberger.  Most of Fani’s life was peaceful. She married Mor Grinwald and moved to Uzhhorod to start her family. At the time, Uzhhorod belonged to Hungary. From 1919-1938, it was considered a part of Czechoslovakia. After this, the land was returned to Hungary.  Needless to say, Fani was in the center of a political mess and a horrific war. She was one of 9,576 Jews in the city. On March 19, 1944, the Nazis entered the city. In May, nearly all of the Jewish residents were deported to Auschwitz. Fani and her family were included in this.  Fani was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz at age seventy-five. May her memory be a blessing.  REMEMBER FANI GRINWALD.  #holocaust #shoah #wwii #ww2 #jewish #history #auschwitz #remembering less

Have you heard about the medical experiments performed on twin children during the Holocaust? Among the darkest stories of Holocaust perpetrators is that of Josef Mengele, a doctor who was the architect of cruel and unnecessary procedures. Mengele earned the nickname “Angel of Death" at Auschwitz, where he worked shifts on the arrivals ramp, deciding which Jewish people would be gassed immediately and which would be temporarily allowed to live. Even when he was not on duty, Mengele could be spotted at the ramp, searching for twins. Mengele performed legitimate research on twins prior to World War II. But at Auschwitz, the normal medical ethics did not apply. Mengele was not concerned if his experiments killed the young Jewish or Romani twins who were the subjects. Sometimes both twins were forced to undergo painful and unnecessary medical procedures. Other times one twin was kept unharmed to be compared against the other. The twins in these photos were subjects of Mengele's ex...