(The Auschwitz medical register owned by the Polish government and lent to the English court for the 1964 trial, makes clear that this particular operation was done by Dr. Dering's Polish colleague at Auschwitz, Dr. Jan Grabczynski: on May 6, 1943, the two doctors seem to have taken turns castrating fifteen young men in a row.) Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Tianxin Xu, ELA I, 6th Hr Details Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Topics: *Sonderkommando *Dr. Mengele & genetic experimentation Main Characters *Dr. Miklos Nyiszli: A Jewish doctor deported to Auschwitz selected to work under Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp (1943–45) who selected prisoners for execution in the gas chambers and conducted medical experiments on inmates in pseudoscientific racial studies. After the war, he escaped internment and went underground, ultimately settling in South America. His gruesome experiments on helpless inmates are the stuff of nightmares and he is considered by some to be among the vilest men in modern history. Dr. Josef Mengele, the cruel staff doctor at Auschwitz death camp, acquired a certain legendary quality even before his death in 1979. "Out of the Ashes" is very nearly the best story brought to the screen, among the many I've seen. In May of 1944 the author, a Hungarian Jewish physician, was deported with his wife and daughter by cattle car to the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. Evading Capture Josef Mengele had hoped to use the “research” he had garnered in Auschwitz in order to produce his Habilitation , a second, post-doctoral, dissertation required for admission to a university faculty as a professor in German-speaking lands. This memoir chronicles the Auschwitz experience, and the German retreat, ending a year later in Melk, Austria when the Germans surrendered their position there and Nyiszli obtained his freedom. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. ‘Mengele’ Review: The Demon Doctor of Auschwitz He saw himself as a serious man of science, plumbing the mysteries of heredity to perfect the Volk, and never felt a moment’s remorse. At issue here (which many may not realise) is the life-story of one Doctor Gisella Perl--a Hungarian Jew who, along with her entire family, was captured from the family's home-town of Sighet and sent by boxcar to Auschwitz--while the holocaust itself provides the backdrop for the story. As the "medical selector" for the camp, he was present at the arrival of every train. Summary/Review: Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. Later I learned that he was the head of the SS group, that his name was Dr. Mengele, and that he was chief physician of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Though unfamiliar with the various SS ranks, I surmised from his arm band that he was a doctor. His work Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account appeared in English in 1960. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. 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