AUSCHWITZ

 1942 -1944 Jews were sent to the camp’s gas chambers  1.3 million people died here, around 90% of them Jews.

Josef Mengele

 Born on March 16, 1911  Joined Nazi Party in 1937  Began career at Auschwitz in 1943

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EXPERIMENTS

• • • • • • • • High Altitude Experiments Incendiary Bomb Experiments Freezing Experiments Sea-water Experiments Malaria-Experiments Mustard Gas Experiments Typhus Experiments Poison Experiments http://www.mengele.dk/images/exp8.jpg

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1945 - Auschwitz is evacuated on 18 January

Of the

3,000

children involved in Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz only about

200

remain Mengele escaped to Argentina and remained in hiding for several more decades. In 1992, DNA from a skeleton found in South America was matched to DNA from Mengele’s son, and the Mengele’s disappearing act was solved.