Auschwitz survivor who came face to face with Nazi 'Angel of Death' but escaped being sent to the gas chambers after lying about his age tells how he found love with fellow Holocaust victim, 89, following wife's death

Daily Mail ^ | Jan 27 | By HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY CORRESPONDENT

[RandFan]

Woah. He lied to Mengele and it saved him.

Today is 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

[EnderWiggin1970]

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.

[rktman]

Bless him and congrats.

[know.your.why]

Anyone thats interested enough to read this, if you havent already, read Viktor Frankls "Mans Search For Meaning". The first half is titled "Experiences in a Concentration Camp". Frankl cheated death and survived through multiple amazing circumstances. https://viktorfranklamerica.com/viktor-frankl-bio/

[hecticskeptic]

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....

[1066AD]

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”.

[Gene Eric]

When the books are gone, history will be easier to revise.

[jmacusa]

Yes by the Red Army's 322nd.Rifle Regiment. There were a few thousand survivors the SS didn't bother to finish off. Including quite a number of young children, Twins. Mengele, “Herr Doktor’’, that sick bastard did the most horrible things to them.

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.

[RandFan]

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.

[linMcHlp]

Story is worth the read.

[sauropod]

Will look for this.

[sauropod]

Corrie Ten Boom.

[tired&retired]

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.

[rlmorel]

Thank you-I have bookmarked it to read.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Most were oblivious and considered what was going on a vicious rumor, even outright lies "

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?

[know.your.why]

"...it was the most meaningful thing he had ever read...."

Reminds me of a Readers Digest interview they did with actor/comedian Tim Allen. Allen went to prison for five years for drug trafficking in 1978. RD asked him "If there was just one experience in prison that profoundly changed you what would it be?" Allen said that he read the book Man's Search for Meaning and it changed his life forever. Thats what got me to read it the first time. My favorite quotes from the author Viktor Frankl are:

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”

And...

“He, who has a why to live for, can bear with almost any how.”

[Bigg Red]

Amazing and inspiring book. Read it about 60 years ago.

[Bigg Red]

Also unbelievable is that you have people today who seem eager to commit genocide against the Jews yet again. Prayers up.

[Lurker]

“ Maybe God forbid it ever happening again.”

Russia
China
Cambodia
Rwanda

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[No Party Affiliation]

“They were so heavily brainwashed they would not accept it”

Sounds like modern day democrats.