Transylvanian Jewish Vera Alexander survived
almost 3 years in Auschwitz.
She testified in the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial in
Jerusalem, stating she saw the twin gypsy
boys
sewn together by Mengele
Attorney General: Do you remember the notorious Dr.
Mengele?
Witness Alexander: To my sorrow - very well indeed.
Q. We have already heard about him, but there is one matter which we have not yet heard about. Do you remember the experiments he used to conduct on twins?
A. I only witnessed one experiment.
Q. What did you witness?
A. There was a set of twins, Gypsies, whom he took away one day from the block where I was - that was the Zigeunerlager - the Gypsy camp. Some days later, he returned them, with veins in their arms and their backs sewn together.
Presiding Judge: I did not understand that.
Attorney General: He sewed them.
Presiding Judge: Sewed the veins together?
Witness Alexander: Yes.
Q. Did he turn them into Siamese twins?
A. He sewed their arms together - they were already full of pus, and full of wounds.
Witness Alexander: To my sorrow - very well indeed.
Q. We have already heard about him, but there is one matter which we have not yet heard about. Do you remember the experiments he used to conduct on twins?
A. I only witnessed one experiment.
Q. What did you witness?
A. There was a set of twins, Gypsies, whom he took away one day from the block where I was - that was the Zigeunerlager - the Gypsy camp. Some days later, he returned them, with veins in their arms and their backs sewn together.
Presiding Judge: I did not understand that.
Attorney General: He sewed them.
Presiding Judge: Sewed the veins together?
Witness Alexander: Yes.
Q. Did he turn them into Siamese twins?
A. He sewed their arms together - they were already full of pus, and full of wounds.
Vera Alexander is quoted in 1985 issues of both
Newsweek & The Bulletin, on the fate of the kids:
"They screamed day and night from pain. Finally, their
mother managed
to get
some morphine, and she killed them to end their misery." The
Bulletin - Newsweek
A 1997 book by former Nazi hunter John Pascucci,
states the boys'
mother
had to sneak into Mengele's laboratory to murder
her sons.
"In one case, for example, three-year-old twins named
Tito and Nino had been cut open, along their spines, and
then sewn together, back to back, and wrist to wrist.
Their wounds had been filthy, and had soon stunk of
gangrene. They screamed in pain, day and night until
finally their mother had sneaked into Mengele's
laboratory and killed her two little sons."
Vera Alexander is quoted in the 2000 book
Mengele: The Complete Story
calling the gypsy boys as her "pets"
(see: "Non-Jews
are dogs")
"One day Mengele brought chocolate and special clothes.
The next day, SS men came and took two children away.
They were two of my pets, Tito and Nino. One of them was
a hunchback. Two or three days later, an SS man brought
them back in a terrible state. They had been cut. The
hunchback was sewn to the other child, back to back,
their wrists back to back too. There was the terrible
smell of gangrene. The cuts were dirty and the children
cried every night."
The veracity of Alexander's testimony about her pet gypsy children stitched together by Mengele is confirmed by yet another Auschwitz survivor who also witnessed his handiwork:
Romanian Jew Eva Mozes Kor and her
identical twin, Miriam Mozes were also subjected to
experiments by Dr. Mengele.
Although not sewn to her sister, Eva was given 5
injections which induced a fever and swelling of the
arms and legs to a huge size. Mengele's prognosis for
Eva was:
"She has only two weeks to live"
But, now 66 years later with Eve still alive, his
judgement was clearly wrong.
"Eva later recalled how a set of Gypsy twins was brought
back from Mengele's lab after they were sewn back to
back. Mengele had attempted to create a Siamese twin by
connecting blood vessels and organs. The twins screamed
day and night until gangrene set in, and after three
days, they died ..."
source: Lone
Wolf @ The Weapon of War
