Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz on June 14, 1944, 14-year-old Sheindi Ehrenwald stood with other inmates, naked, her head shaved and dripping with disinfectant. An SS officer was present. After inspecting the group, he ordered the wardens to take Sheindi’s 12-year-old sister, Dori, to his quarters. The man, she later realized, was Josef Mengele, a physician notorious for conducting grotesque experiments on Jewish prisoners, many of them children. Dori never made it out of the camp.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 24, 2020 15:19 UTC