The Hero Who Saved Children in Auschwitz
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Survivors share how one man’s bravery saved children in Auschwitz.
Survivors of Auschwitz recount the extraordinary bravery of Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked his life to protect children from execution. By labeling them as twins, he gave them a chance to live and mitigated the harm from Dr. Josef Mengele’s pseudo-medical experiments.
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The Hero Who Saved Children in Auschwitz
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Survivors of Auschwitz recount the extraordinary bravery of Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked his life to protect children from execution. By labeling them as twins, he gave them a chance to live and mitigated the harm from Dr. Josef Mengele’s pseudo-medical experiments.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship-As soon as we got into the F Lager, into the barrack, we got the numbers.
That was the very first thing.
-With a stroke of his pen, Erno Spiegel had changed the boys' birthdates, making them twins and effectively saving their lives.
Erno Spiegel and his twin sister, Magda, were pulled from the lines.
Magda was sent to the women's camp and told to leave her son Shmuel behind with her mother, not knowing that her mother and her son would both be murdered.
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