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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) presents a Yom Hashoah Holocaust Commemoriation program, Descent into Darkness, featuring testimony from Twin Survivors of Dr. Josef Mengele, Irene Hizme and René Slotkin. This is an extremely rare oppportunity to hear direct testimony from twins who miraculously survived horrific "research studies" by Mengele, Auschwitz's infamous "Angel of Death."
Irene and René were born in Czechoslovakia. Their father was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1941. The twins and their mother were sent first to Theresienstadt, and in 1943, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After four months together the twins were taken by Mengele for "experimentation" and their mother was murdered that night. They were six years old. Irene said, "To talk about it is a descent into darkness." Irene and René both live on Long Island. They may be the last living Twin Survivors of Mengele.
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