Posted on 01/26/2025 9:06:35 PM PST by RandFan
The victim of Nazi terror, 92, who spoke to MailOnline to mark Holocaust Memorial Day today, came face to face with twisted doctor Josef Mengele after being taken to Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland with his mother and eight of his siblings in 1944.
Then aged just 12, Ivor was destined for death along with nearly all other Jewish children who were sent to the camp with their families during the Holocaust.
Heartrendingly, his mother forced Ivor, who was big for his years, to stand in the line of able-bodied men, minutes before she and seven of his siblings were sent to the gas chambers. 'That saved my life,' he says.
Ivor remembers how, on coming face to face with Mengele - who would determine the fate of arrivals with a point of his finger - he said he was 16. Had he given the mass murderer his real age, he would not be here.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Today is 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
One of the reasons we must remember the Holocaust and its details is to remember all the acts of valor amidst the evil. All the examples of people who, facing death for themselves, did not simply wallow helplessly in despair but gave thought for others around them and did whatever they could for them. God bless them.
Bless him and congrats.
I gave this to a friend who was dying of cancer.... I would have given him a Bible but as a Christian, he was already well read in the Bible and had accepted Christ. Anyway, he couldn’t thank me enough and said that outside of Scripture, it was the most meaningful thing he had ever read....
Lied about his age?
That’s what Elie Wiesel did too, he said a “Trusty” helping unload the cattle cars told him to do that.
Everyone should read his book “Night”.
When the books are gone, history will be easier to revise.
In high school I read Eugene Kogon’s ‘The Theory And Practice of Hell/ The German Concentration Camps And The System Behind Them''. A nightmare insight to a brutal state within a state and a society without law. Still beggars belief that within living memory that a nation of people, one of the cultured and advanced could establish as law the extermination of an entire race of human being as a matter of state policy. and there are still those living who survived the horror and those who fought so courageously to end it. Maybe God forbid it ever happening again.
I saw a documentary made in the 70s interviewing average Germans at the time (housewives etc). Most were oblivious and considered what was going on a vicious rumor, even outright lies etc. when the topic came up by more courageous counterparts.
They were so heavily brainwashed they would not accept it
Some did know what was going on and actually fed and hid Jewish people or otherwise helped them when possible.
Story is worth the read.
Will look for this.
Corrie Ten Boom.
When I visited Auschwitz, the room filled with the 30,000 pairs of children’s shoes, left when they were executed, was the most sickening of the place.
It was even worse than standing in the gas chamber next to the cremation ovens.
Every human on earth should be shown that facility. It’s a life changer.
Thank you-I have bookmarked it to read.
You mean, like those who today think it's Ok to chop the sexual organs off children who have been brainwashed by their teachers into thinking that they are of the opposite gender? Maybe the future Mengele of today might be named Fauci?
Amazing and inspiring book. Read it about 60 years ago.
Also unbelievable is that you have people today who seem eager to commit genocide against the Jews yet again. Prayers up.
“ Maybe God forbid it ever happening again.”
Russia
China
Cambodia
Rwanda
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“They were so heavily brainwashed they would not accept it”
Sounds like modern day democrats.
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