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[UPDATE] My 40-year Hunt for Josef Mengele's Auschwitz Lab Notes

The latest lead was to a Buenos Aires seminary and a deceased priest

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Sep 14, 2024
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Josef Mengele in Frankfurt in 1935, training with Germany’s leading eugenicists. (The Archives of the Max Planck Society, Berlin-Dahlem)

For 40 years I have searched for a briefcase stuffed with medical notes and lab specimens that belonged to Auschwitz's Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele.

It began unexpectedly while I was practicing law in 1981 in New York. I had agreed to a pro bono representation of Marc Berkowitz, a surviving twin of Mengele's camp experiments. Berkowitz, and his twin sister, Francesca, wanted the German government or the Mengele family to pay for the costly medical care that they – and about 100 other surviving twins – incurred as a result of Mengele’s barbarism. Modern-day doctors were frustrated in treating the twins’ chronic ailments because there were no records of the compounds and drugs Mengele had administered in his mad efforts to create a "superior race."

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