1. Dr. Josef Mengele "The Angel of Death"
By: Zarah Abenes & Cesar Sanchez

2. Early Life Born March 16, 1911 (Gunzburg, Germany)
Karl Mengele & Sons Company
PhD in Anthropology (1935)
assistant of Dr. Otman von Verchuer (1937)
He was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany to a wealth family.
His father is the founder of Karl Mengele & Sons company which is a prosperous manufacturer of farming implements.
He earned his PhD in Anthropology in the University of Munich.
He became the assisstant to Dr. Otman von Verchuer, a scientist widely known for his research with twins, the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt.

3. Military Nazi Party 1937 SS 1938 Military 1940
wounded, returned to Germany
worked at KWI
promoted SS captain, trasnfered to Auschwitz
He joined the Nazi Party in 1937.
The same year of receiving his medical degree, he joined the Shutzstaffel (SS).
In 1940, he was drafted to the military, and then volunteered to be part of the medical service for Armed SS.
After getting wounded while on duty, he returned to Germany to work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, directed by his former mentor von Verschuer.
In April of 1943, he received a promotion to the rank of SS captain; He then transferred to Auschwitz, on May 30, 1943 where he would conduct his experiments.

4. Role in Auschwitz under the jurisdiction of Dr. Edward Wriths
determined who would die or not
full license to maim or kill Jewish or Gypsy twin children
victims murdered or died during experimentation
others perform the mundane tasks
400,000 victims
Auschiwitz Building
Mengele was not the only doctor in camp.
There was about 30 doctors, including Mengele, who was under the jurisdiction of Dr. Edward Wriths.
Mengele, like the other doctors, determined who would die or not and was allowed to experiment on anyone he preffered.
His victims either died during experimentation or purposely killed for post-mortem examination.
Like most scientists in the camp, Mengele hired prisoners to perform the grisly tasks like desposing or killing bodies and evaluating his dead victims.
While in the camp, he had about 400,000 victims.
Children Survivors

5. Human Experimentation
eyes
children
amputions of limbs
surgery without anestisia
Twins
He became interested in twins for medical research through Verchuer, his old mentor. Using fraternal and identical twins, he was interested in tracing genetic origins of various diseases. Usually the twins would die during the experiment process but if they didn't, they would get killed and then dissected. In the picture above, he sewed two children together to create conjoined twins, but they soon died because of an infection. It's unknown how many twins he killed but it is estimated to be about 3,000 set of twins with only less than 100 surviving.
Dwarfs
Known as the Ovitz family, the dwarfs pictured above, Mengele used them to discover the biological and pathological causes of the birth of dwarves. Members of the family recalled getting their bone marrow extracted, getting their teeth pulled out, and their eyelashes and hairs plucked. Mengele coupled the drawf women with the dwarf men to turn their wombs into laboratories in order to see what they could create.
Others
He injected chemicals in children's eyes in an attempt to change the colors. He was also known to take the eyes of his victims and pin them to his wall creating a wall full of eyes.
He was also known to cut off limbs and perform surgery without anestisia in order to see what would happen after.
dwarfs
twins

6. South America escaped divorced and married brother's widow abortions
died February 7, 1979 San Paulo, Brazil
Wolfgang Gerhard
After abandoning the Auschwitz camp, he escaped to South America with the help of his wife and friends.
While there, he was known to to be a specialist in abortions, and after one of his patients died, he was detained but was later released.
He moved twice before settling in San Paulo, Brazil.
Because of his bad health, he suffered a stroke while swimming and then drowned.
He died in Feb. 7, 1979 and was buried under "Wolfgang Gerhard", an identity that he stole.

7. Works Cited "Josef Mengele". Holocaust Encyclopedia. 21 October 2013
"Josef Mengele Biography". TheBiographyChannel.com. 21 October 2013
Koren, Yuheda. "The Dwarfs of Auschwitz". TheGuardian.com. 21 October 2013
Nash, Nathaniel. "Mengele- An Abortionist". NewYorkTimes.com. 21 October 2013