AUSCHWITZ
1942 -1944 Jews were sent to the camp’s gas chambers
1.3 million people died here, around 90% of them Jews.
Josef Mengele
 Born on March 16, 1911
Joined Nazi Party in 1937
Began career at Auschwitz in 1943
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EXPERIMENTS
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High Altitude Experiments
Incendiary Bomb Experiments
Freezing Experiments
Sea-water Experiments
Malaria-Experiments
Mustard Gas Experiments
Typhus Experiments
Poison Experiments
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• 1945 - Auschwitz is evacuated on 18 January
Of the 3,000 children involved in Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz only
about 200 remain
Mengele escaped to Argentina and remained in hiding for several more
decades.
In 1992, DNA from a skeleton found in South America was matched to DNA
from Mengele’s son, and the Mengele’s disappearing act was solved.