Holocaust Informative Speech

The biography Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein is about twins that got separated at birth, and now are finding out there is another person in the world with their exact DNA. They were part of a study on separated twins. It was to see in nature versus nurture which one has more of an impact. (31-32) Identical twins were easiest to study because of their identical DNA. Scientists working on the study placed both girls in a family in which are very similar; therefore, they both have a brother that is a couple years older than them. They find out about the other twin, and Paula is having their

Mengele's experiments stated, “My body most of the time was connected to tubes which inserted some drugs into my body. Many days I was tied up for hours” (“Personal Statements From Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments” 1). This quote shows yet again the terrible actions that Dr. Mengele was guilty of and proves that most humans are naturally evil. Although Josef Mengele performed experiments on the prisoners that stood out to him, he was particularly interested in twins. Mengele was so obsessed with twins that he oversaw gruesome tests on 3,000 sets (“Rantings of a Nazi Monster 1”).

These extraordinary stories shed light on what it means to be a twin. The first pair of twins that are introduced, Mia and Alexandra, were separated at birth due to adoption. The environment Mia and Alexandra contrast greatly. Mia, who was raised in Sacramento, California, has started schooling and education.

Have you ever taken the time to think about what the people of the holocaust went through? There were Jews, German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and deviant people captured and transported to the concentration camps just because the Nazis did not think the were good enough. These people suffered from extensive torment, and neglect throughout the holocaust and in the concentration camps. There was hardly any food and because of that many died. They were also medically experimented on which killed them because there were many medicines tried on them and some were even injected with the disease itself. This paper will cover, medical experiments done on the captured, traveling to reach the concentration camps, and the treatment of the captured people.

During the holocaust prisoners of concentration camps were faced with evil, torture and death every day. Some of the prisoners in these camps were selected for Nazi medical experiments. Nazi doctors performed several different human experiments on prisoners throughout the Holocaust. A specifically horrific experiment was the twin experiments. This experiment was performed by Dr. Joseph Mengele and several of his assistants in Auschwitz. He is known for performing some of the most inhumane experiments during the holocaust.

Over 30 experiments were brought about inmates at the concentration camps. Twins were a major help with testing during this time. Twins were brought to doctor’s attention at Auschwitz with helping multiply the German race.

He would browse the lines of people in the death camps and pick out any pairs of twins, whether they were fraternal or identical. Evidently, he wanted to study how multiple births worked in order to accelerate the growth of the Aryan population through multiple births (Surviving Mengele). In most cases, the doctors took a full range of measurements on each twin. This included taking samples of any and all organs, including humiliating examinations and taking tissue samples or fluids from internal organs. When they finished documenting and photographing every aspect of the twins’ bodies, including hair and any other physical features, he killed them both simultaneously by injecting chloroform into their hearts.

Have you ever wonder if you had a long lost twin in the past and your dad went missing and you and your brother had to switch times and find your father no you have not but that is what happened in the twinning project.

Soon he was helping with the experiments and also doing some of his own. One of his most known experiments included fraternal and identical twins. He tried to trace the genetic origin of diseases through the twins. In addition, he likes to study their heredity. He was nice to the children he would soon experiment on. He would befriend them by giving them chocolates and candy. Mengele was kind of like a short term father figure in the children’s eyes. So then the children trusted him and called him “Uncle Mengele.” Mengele got “his” experimental Jews from the selection when the Jews first got to the Concentration Camp. He could do this because part of his job was to help in the selection of the individuals to be selected for the experiments. Whenever a pair of twins came along, most of the time Mengele got them selected for his experiments first. With that, one night Mengele took fourteen pairs of twins and injected each of them with chloroform in their hearts. All fourteen pairs of twins died in one night, so that is a total of 28 people in just one night.

He would measure every part of both twin’s body. He would do measurements and examinations on the twins weekly. The twins that Mengele were housed and fed better than the other prisoners. A former Auschwitz prisoner doctor stated: “He was capable of being so kind to the children, to have them become fond of him, to bring them sugar, to think of small details in their daily lives, and to do things we would genuinely admire and then, next to that, the crematoria smoke, and these children, tomorrow or in a half-hour, he is going to send them there. Well, that is where the anomaly lay.”

Twinsters is a documentary style movie that began on February 23, 2013. Samantha Futerman begins the documentary by telling us a little bit about herself and then the discovery of her twin sister, Anais Bordier. Upon talking to the adoption agency, they determined that the girls should have never been separated to begin with. In the end of the documentary, Samantha stated that if she was somehow given the opportunity to have grown up with Anais, she would not choose to because it would change who they became because of it. This whole experience has changed them both as people. Since they are MZ twins, they are genetically clones of one another, but this does not make them the same people. Samantha’s adoptive parents had two previous children,

Dr. Josef Mengele worked at a camp called Auschwitz. That is where he experimented with people to create what he thought was a perfect race. Mengele was an evil person, he was inhumane. He had always been fascinated with twins, so he decided to experiment on them. He did all sorts of experiments to change whatever he could about a person. In all reality after he got done with the people, they weren't the same. The person they use to be, was no more than a thought. They could never go back to being who they were, even after they left Auschwitz every memory, every sound, every day of being there would always come back to haunt them. They could go as far away from that place as they wanted, but yet still couldn’t seem to loose memory of their tragic, and gruesome experiments.

Eva and Miriam Mozes were born in Portz, Romania, on Jan. 30, 1934. The life for the Mozes twins and their family was good for a couple of years, but in March 1944, the family was told to get a few things because they were going to be relocated. They were send to Auschwitz. Eva and Miriam were 10 years old when they were immediately identified as twins and the people that were in charge separated them from the family for experimentation. The rest of the family perished in the gas chambers. When Eva and Miriam were separated from their family, they were put through a lot of extreme surgeries and experiments by Dr.Mengele. A horrifying fate was waiting for them with Mengele. Eva recalled her own quick introduction to life at Auschwitz, when she first went to use the latrine she found corpses of several children lying on the floor. Ever since then she made a silent promise to make sure that her and Miriam don’t end up on that filthy floor. The twins lived with thousands of other twin girls. They had two really small meals a day of bread and coffee, the girls lived in filthy barracks and slept cuddle up together on wooden boards. During the day, they were marched to Auschwitz, where Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death, would start performing very unsafe experiments on them. Mengele was trying to discover the secret of twinning using, cruel and

Throughout World War II, Nazi Germany’s discrimination displayed towards Jews was atrocious. Anti-Semitism was ingrained into the German social philosophy and initiated the hate towards Jews. They were forced to endure harsh and arduous manual labor within concentration camps. The prisoners survived off pitiful amounts of food and died of sheer physical exhaustion in weeks. Contagious diseases prevailed due to the lack of sanitary facilities and the

Identical twins Gareth and Stefan delivered babies at the exact same time although each one lives 10.000 miles away from one another and with different due times yet still this mysterious miracle occurred.. on the 13th of October the two wives gave birth to young Imogen and Harvey just hours apart from each other.