But Mengele himself was never cruel to them?
“Never,” they say in unison.
They said he was almost fatherly. “We knew he’s not going to harm us. We knew it.”
“Because he was so handsome,” Pearl says. “You forgot about anything.”
“He was like an angel,” Helen adds.
“We were like friends with him,” Pearl says. “Really.”
“He was very smart,” Helen says. “People were falling in love with him; I’m not kidding.”
So said twin survivors of Mengele in Auschwitz. Abigail Pogrebin has written a book about the twins.
My comment after visiting the site where these ladies were subjected to experiments:
