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Josef Mengele

Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)
May 16, 2026, 11:40 am
Sealed files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele to be opened, Swiss intel agency says
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
By ToI Staff
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
December 1, 2025, 8:17 am
Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show
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
By ToI Staff
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
May 6, 2025, 7:30 pm
New documents shed light on ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele’s escape from Nazi Germany
Notorious German SS officer and physician of Auschwitz requested to travel from Argentina to West Germany in 1959 using his real name, sources reveal
By Zev Stub
A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)
November 9, 2023, 11:49 am
Medical professionals played major role in Nazi atrocities, study finds
New report recommends that study of Holocaust medical practices be incorporated into healthcare curricula, to better equip today’s doctors to face ethical dilemmas
By AFP
Twin sisters Miriam and Eva Mozes Kor in 1949 (courtesy)
October 26, 2022, 4:55 am
Gap in children’s Holocaust literature filled by memoir of former ‘Mengele twin’
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
By Matt Lebovic
René Slotkin, photographed here by BA Van Sise, died July 10 at the age of 84. (Courtesy of B.A. Van Sise/Design by Mollie Suss)
July 16, 2022, 3:40 am
René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84
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
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Frida Simon at home in 2022. (Courtesy)
March 11, 2022, 6:23 am
Survivor who married her pre-war flame 50 years after Auschwitz turns 100 in NY
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
By Luke Tress
Lara Logan, then-chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, speaks at a ceremony on Capitol Hill, on October 26, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
November 30, 2021, 10:26 pm
Fox host Lara Logan compares Fauci to Nazi death camp doctor Mengele
Auschwitz memorial museum calls comparison ‘shameful,’ lamenting journalist’s exploitation of Holocaust for use in modern-day debate on vaccines
By Ron Kampeas
Yosef Kleinman testifies at Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Jerusalem in archival footage broadcast in a documentary on Israel's Channel 13 in 2019. (Screenshot)
May 4, 2021, 11:38 pm
Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91
One of 110 witnesses at seminal 1961 trial, Kleinman’s testimony helped send notorious Nazi official to the gallows
By Ron Kampeas
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, right, is juxtaposed with Josef Mengele on the front page of the Makeleio daily in Greece, November 10, 2020. (Courtesy/Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
November 13, 2020, 2:50 am
Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
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
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor sits in a courtroom in Lueneburg, northern Germany, April 21, 2015. (Julian Stratenschulte/Pool Photo via AP)
July 4, 2019, 8:53 pm
Mengele survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who preached forgiveness of Nazis, dies at 85
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
By AP and ToI Staff
In this, Jan. 23, 2019 photo, Holocaust survivor Cipora Feivlovich speaks to The Associated Press at her house in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 27, 2019, 11:55 pm
Survivor marks birthday on Holocaust Remembrance Day with stories of Auschwitz
Cipora Feivlovich, 92, spends the day retelling her harrowing experiences in the camp, where her parents, brother and best friends all perished
By Aron Heller
This 1942 photo provided by the the public prosecutor's office in Hamburg via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, shows Heinrich Himmler, center left, shaking hands with new guard recruits at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. (public prosecutor's office in Hamburg via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via AP)
November 10, 2018, 11:33 pm
Historian exposes Germany’s minute number of convictions for Nazi war crimes
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
By ToI Staff
German prosecutor, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, Jens Rommel stands in the archives room of the institution on April 19, 2018 in Ludwigsburg, southwestern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)
May 21, 2018, 10:07 am
Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time
Team of investigators travels the world, urgently trying to track down and bring to justice the last remaining Holocaust war criminals
By Yannick Pasquet
Steve Fitzgerald (YouTube screenshot)
April 29, 2018, 1:06 am
Rabbis call on House candidate to stop comparing abortion to Holocaust
Kansas City’s Steve Fitzgerald likened Planned Parenthood to a Nazi concentration camp, brought up Mengele in debate over aborted fetal tissue
By JTA
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