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Sealed files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele to be opened, Swiss intel agency says

Sat, 16 May 2026 08:40:58 +0000

Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina, was never prosecuted for sadistic Auschwitz experiments despite possibly visiting Zurich after West Germany issued arrest warrant against him

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Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:17:01 +0000

Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death' felt so comfortable in South American country that he began to use his real name in 1956, and requested his formal identification papers be reissued

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New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:30:31 +0000

Notorious German SS officer and physician of Auschwitz requested to travel from Argentina to West Germany in 1959 using his real name, sources reveal

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Medical professionals played major role in Nazi atrocities, study finds

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:49:47 +0000

New report recommends that study of Holocaust medical practices be incorporated into healthcare curricula, to better equip today's doctors to face ethical dilemmas

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Gap in children’s Holocaust literature filled by memoir of former ‘Mengele twin’

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:55:19 +0000

Before her death, survivor Eva Mozes Kor partnered with author Danica Davidson on book, ‘I Will Protect You,' aiming to contextualize antisemitism - and forgiveness - for kids

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René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:40:41 +0000

After the war René and his sister Irene were adopted by an NYC family, and spent most of their lives there; in his later years he taught children about the Holocaust

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Survivor who married her pre-war flame 50 years after Auschwitz turns 100 in NY

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 04:23:59 +0000

Frida Simon faced down Mengele and lived through the camps, while her boyfriend went on the lam; they reunited in Brooklyn a half-century later

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Fox host Lara Logan compares Fauci to Nazi death camp doctor Mengele

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:26:29 +0000

Auschwitz memorial museum calls comparison 'shameful,' lamenting journalist's exploitation of Holocaust for use in modern-day debate on vaccines

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Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91

Tue, 04 May 2021 20:38:09 +0000

One of 110 witnesses at seminal 1961 trial, Kleinman's testimony helped send notorious Nazi official to the gallows

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Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:50:25 +0000

Daily warns readers Albert Bourla, a Greek Jew, will 'stick the needle' in them, calls prospective COVID vaccine 'poison'; its publisher was convicted of anti-Semitic defamation

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Mengele survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who preached forgiveness of Nazis, dies at 85

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 17:53:35 +0000

Romania native underwent brutal experimentation in Auschwitz along with her twin sister; made headlines in 2015 for embrace shared with Nazi during war crimes trial

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Survivor marks birthday on Holocaust Remembrance Day with stories of Auschwitz

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:55:45 +0000

Cipora Feivlovich, 92, spends the day retelling her harrowing experiences in the camp, where her parents, brother and best friends all perished

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Historian exposes Germany’s minute number of convictions for Nazi war crimes

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:33:00 +0000

In new book, Mary Fulbrook notes that while up to a million actively took part in genocide, only a few thousand were ever sentenced to more than 3 years in prison

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Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time

Mon, 21 May 2018 07:07:21 +0000

Team of investigators travels the world, urgently trying to track down and bring to justice the last remaining Holocaust war criminals

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Rabbis call on House candidate to stop comparing abortion to Holocaust

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:06:10 +0000

Kansas City's Steve Fitzgerald likened Planned Parenthood to a Nazi concentration camp, brought up Mengele in debate over aborted fetal tissue

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