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with their saved food rations,
were able to obtain informa-
tion and much-needed per-
sonal articles.
In her book, Moskovitz tells
of the two candles they receiv-
ed from their brothers, sent
with a guard who worked in
both the women's and men's
camps. The sisters cut the
candles in half and used two
stumps on Rosh Hashanah
and the others for Yom
Kippur.
In Auschwitz, Moskovitz
kept praying for the rest
of her family, for her hus-
band, Moshe Moskovitz, and
for other relatives, of whom
the sisters knew nothing,
all forcefully taken by the
Nazis from the small border
town, Maramarossziget in
Hungary.
In the course of their daily
encounters, the Ovics siblings
often met and talked to Dr.
Mengele, who worked with
many doctors and nurses
there, performing his ex-
periments on twins, midgets,
or whomever he deemed
suitable for his devilish
ministrations.
Franciska, one of the small
statured sisters, asked Dr.
Mengele on one occasion:
"How long will these ex-
periments be conducted?"
"As long as you are alive,"
the Angel of Death replied.
The seven small siblings
and the full grown ones ex-
pected their own selection for
the crematoria every day.
They were - aware of the
mass killings and knew too
well that human bodies were
burning and the thick dark
smoke of the tall chimneys
was coming from the remains
of Jews, like themselves.
The aides took blood
samples regularly from the
siblings and from the one-
year-old baby, Simson, who
was still nursing from his
normal-sized mother, Lea.
Nurses, under the direction of
Dr. Mengele, took blood from
the veins and from behind the
ears, Elizabeth tells.
Simson puzzled Mengele.
He was most curious to find
out whether the little boy
would grow into a regular-
sized adult, or would remain
a midget, or dwarf, like his
seven uncles and aunts.
Another experiment was
the alternating of drops of
cold and warm water into the
siblings' and the baby's ears,
which, according to
Elizabeth, always created
vomiting. Here Dr. Mengele
himself measured the reac-
tions. Fainting was
commonplace.
Along with blood, the
nurses took hairs from the
Jews' heads and eyelashes;
healthy teeth were pulled and
compared with parts of the
large siblings to find the
secret of dwarfism. On one oc-
casion, Elizabeth quotes Dr.
Mengele: ". . . with this fami-
ly of dwarfs, there can be at
least 20 years worth of study
material," the doctor said.
The administered
substance is unknown to
Elizabeth, but as she says,
regular injections into the
wombs made the sisters faint
whenever they received them.
On the doctor's order, an ar-
tist drew the hands and feet
of the sisters as well as the ex-
tremities of the little boy,
Simson. The doctor tried to
predict whether the boy
would grow up to become a
dwarf or a normal-sized man.
On a summer day in the
camp, Elizabeth remembers,
Dr. Mengele "came to us and
said that shortly he will take
us to a beautiful place, where
we will appear before big per-
sonalities. We should put on
our best attire. We had
garments, because when we
were taken from home, each
of us put on three dresses, or
suits, because we knew
wherever we'll be taken, there
will not be clothing to our
size. Dr. Mengele even
brought us lipsticks and face
powder, that we should make
up our faces.
"The next day guards came
to get us by a car. Our two
dwarf brothers were in the car
already; we were glad to see
them again, as women and
men were kept at separate
camps, even for Mengele."
The brothers and sisters
were taken to a big hall, all
the time believing there was
a request of a music and
dance performance, which
was their routine. A small
podium was set up for them,
as if in a theater.
Filled buseses and private
cars brought the audience;
they even saw Nazi leader
Heinrich Himmler get out of
an elegant automobile.
Suddenly, the family was
given an order: Everyone to
undress! As they were taking
off their garments, two men
carried a cadaver out of the
big rom. They became
terrified.
Elizabeth continues: "After
we filed into the hall, and
stepped to the podium,
Mengele started a lecture
pointing at verious parts of
our motionless naked bodies,
with a long rod resembling a
billiard cue. In the hall the
audience, 2,000-2,500 impec-
cably dressed physicians and
high-ranking military men
listened to him in silence.
Himmler sat in the first row;
next to him stood a whirring
movie camera.
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