Dr. Mengele's Twin Experiments During The Holocaust

The Twin Experiments During the Holocaust, many gruesome, inhumane, and disgusting things were done to people. One of the worst, though, was most definitely Dr. Mengele’s twin experiments. Mengele had an unhealthy obsession with twins and people with bodily and disfigurements, such as heterochromia or club foot; he did vile experiments on many people, and his victims were never left unscathed. The history of Mengele’s obsession with unique human traits dates back to far before the experiments actually begun. Dr. Mengele spent his time researching heredity and its effects, and he was anxious to see how twins would grow and react to certain things. He found his twins on the ramp of the train where people exited, having the SS officers yell

They were put through painful processes and suffered daily. They never got a break from the “tests,” and were put through constant agony. A group of Buzzfeed interviewers talked to a survivor of the experiments, Eva Mozes Kor, and she explained her experience. “Mengele would count us every day. He wanted to know how many guinea pigs he had each day. I was used in two types of experiments. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, they would put me naked in a room with my twin sister and many other twins, up to eight hours a day. They would measure every part of my body, compare it to my sister, and compare it to charts. On alternate days, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, they would take us to a blood lab; they would tie both my arms to restrict the blood flow, take a lot of blood from my left arm, and give me a minimum of five injections in the right arm.” Eva and her sister both lived through the experiments, but unfortunately her sister died due to results of the experiments; her kidneys hadn’t grown since age twelve(the age that she was put in Auschwitz). All of the twins suffered the same horrible conditions. Many of them couldn’t take the pain and died only a few months after the experiments began. Survival was a few and far between occurrence during the experiments, and it caused lots of pain and suffering among the