DEKEL, LUCETTE MATALON LAGNADO SHEILA COHN Read Free Page B

spring of 1944 along with her identical twin sister, Miriam, her parents, and two older sisters. Entire family slaughtered except for twins. Currently resides in Terre Haute, Indiana.
    MIRIAM MOZES: Twin sister of Eva, now living in Israel. Cofounder and organizer of CANDLES in Israel and Europe. Works as head nurse in Israeli hospital. Suffers severe health problems believed due to experiments undergone at the hands of Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz.
    JUDITRI YAGUDAH: Born May 25, 1934, in Braov, a small town in what used to be Hungary, but is now part of Romania. Nazis sent entire family to ghetto in Cluj, and from there to Auschwitz. Was ten years old when she, identical twin sister, Ruthie, and parents were deported to Auschwitz. Father killed immediately by Nazis.
    Judith and Ruthie sent with their mother to twins’ barracks.
    OLGA GROSSMAN: Born in 1938 in Czechoslovakia. Was six years old when deported to Auschwitz with her twin sister, Vera. Family spent time in other concentration camps before Auschwitz. Has absolutely no memories of her stay in the camp, and is unable to talk about the war. Suffers from recurrent hallucinations about Mengele. Frequently institutionalized as an adult.
    VERA GROSSMAN: Olga’s fraternal twin sister. Was so different in appearance from her sister that Mengele did not believe they were really twins. Unlike twin, claims to have very vivid memories of Auschwitz. Has no difficulty discussing the war. Outgoing. Active in CANDLES and other Holocaust groups. Travels to Germany to lecture about the twins of Auschwitz. Served as author’s interpreter for all Hebrew-language interviews of Israeli twins.
    ALEX DEPEL: Born in Cluj, Romania, in 1930. Age thirteen at time of deportation to Auschwitz. Though not a twin, selected by Mengele to go to the twins’ barracks because of his striking
    “Aryan features.
    Subjected to medical experiments like the twins.
    PETER SOMOGYL: Born in Pecs, Hungary, in 1930. Deported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 on one of the last transports of Hungarian Jews.
    Mother and sister perished in the gas chambers.
    Only Peter and twin brother survived. Extremely popular with Dr. Mengele-he nicknamed them “the intelligentsia” because of their fluency in several languages, their knowledge of classical music, and their ability to play the piano.
    VERA BLAU: Was eleven years old when deported to Auschwitz in April 1944 from Czechoslovakia. Arrived with twin sister, Rachel, mother, and little brother. Only twins survived. Vera, an artist in Tel Aviv, insists Mengele “loved” little children.
    MENASHE L0R1NCZ1: Born in small town in Romania in 1934.
    Shortly after Menashe and twin sister, Lea, celebrated their tenth birthday in the Cluj Ghetto, they and their grandparents were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz. Grandparents immediately killed. Fate of mother unknown. Became a messenger boy for Mengele. One of the few child inmates permitted to wander freely around the death camp.
    LEA LORINCZI: Twin sister of Menashe. Became an active Communist in Romania after World War II. Later emigrated to Israel, married ultra-Orthodox man, and joined Hassidic sect.
    Moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Now owns ladies’ garment store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
    EVA KUPAS: Deported to Auschwitz with twin brother in spring 1944.
    Birth date unknown. No recollection of prewar life. Her only memory of the death camp is the day she and other twin girls were taken to pick wildflowers in a field just outside of Birkenau.
    SOLOMON MALIK: Deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, at the age of thirteen, along with parents, twin sister, and another pair of twin brothers. Only the four twins survived.
    JOSEF MENGErE: Born March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany.
    Son of wealthy factory owner. Became a scientist with a special interest in twins. Volunteered to go to Auschwitz to work as a doctor in the spring of 1943, at age thirty-two. Disappeared after the war.
    Also known as Helmut Gregor, G.