Identical twin sisters Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Tchengar) were born in 1937 in the town of Şimleul Silvaniei (Szilagysomlyo), Transylvania. In 1940, Transylvania was annexed to Hungary, and...
Identical twin sisters Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Tchengar) were born in 1937 in the town of Şimleul Silvaniei (Szilagysomlyo), Transylvania. In 1940, Transylvania was annexed to Hungary, and in June 1942 their father Zvi was taken to a forced labor unit on the Russian front.
With the German conquest of Hungary in March 1944, the familys property and belongings were confiscated, and they were forced to wear a yellow star. In May 1944 Iudit, Lia and their mother, Miriam-Rachel, were interned in a ghetto, and the following month they were deported to Auschwitz, along with many other members of their family.
At Auschwitz, Iudit and Lia suffered the infamous medical experiments of Josef Mengele. The twins always stayed close together. Every night, their mother would sneak into their block and give them her meager portion of bread. She would also take them outside, in all weathers, to wash them and comb their hair, and thus preventing them from getting infested by lice and being doomed to the gas chambers. One day, as Mengele was experimenting on the girls, Miriam-Rachel burst into the shack and begged him to stop. In response, she was injected with a concoction that nearly killed her, and caused her permanent deafness.
In January 1945 the girls and their mother were liberated by the Red Army. They returned to Şimleul Silvaniei, and in August 1945 they were reunited with their father, who had survived many camps. In 1960 the family immigrated to Israel. Both girls married: Lia and her husband Jean have two children and seven grandchildren; Iudit and Moshe have three children and five grandchildren.
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this video is really something. i can't believe that people had to go through such terrifying things. being used as lab rats; having surgeries performed on you without sedatives. having hair sewn on you, being sewn to another human being. how do people come up with these experiments. and who the hell could be so heartless to act them out on innocent people. i just, i don't understand how people can be so cruel, and think nothing of it.
mann, this is so sad. We're talking about the holocaust in school....It's so terrible what they put those 6 million innocent jews through. I can't even imagine actually being there...
Good I am glad you german monsters suffered! You all desreved it..us Jews never did shit to you and yet millions of us died in your concentration camps and my great grandpa was part of the group thjat killed your german asses so fuck you!!!! And I hope these videos open your eyes about the horrors of the holocaust just read the book NIGHT you ignorant german pig!
Germans are dogs to think they suffered as much as what they did to an innocent people. Germans had their hey day back then. If you ask me Germany should have been wiped off the face of the earth when it all started. I know there are good Germans and that would have been the exception but mosy of Germany knew what they were doing and they condoned it. Long live God's chosen and Germany you should fade from history altogether.
hey....thats a pretty ignorant comment to put out there i mean once WWII came around germany was just looking for some hope and they believed it to be hitler....yes he and his ss soldiers were very wrong and evil but the people of germany only followed him because at the time thats what they believed was right and true just like we believe in our system to be the right thing and true!!! Im not condoling what happened in any way im just saying what is true!!!
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i can't believe that people had to go through such terrifying things. being used as lab rats; having surgeries performed on you without sedatives. having hair sewn on you, being sewn to another human being.
how do people come up with these experiments. and who the hell could be so heartless to act them out on innocent people.
i just, i don't understand how people can be so cruel, and think nothing of it.
it completely blows my mind.
Im not condoling what happened in any way im just saying what is true!!!