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Mengele's Writings
To Be Auctioned
(JTA) — The writings of Auschwitz's
"Angel of Death:' Dr. Josef Mengele,
are for sale by auction.
Alexander Historic Auctions of
Stamford, Conn., announced it will
sell off all of the war criminal's writ-
ings in an auction July 21.
The writings include the sadistic
war criminal's autobiography describ-
ing his escape from Germany and
life in South America, diaries, philo-
sophical tracts, racial and political
commentary, poetry, short stories
and travelogues. The archive is com-
posed of more than 3,300 pages of
handwritten text, some illustrated,
written while Mengele was in hiding
in Paraguay and Brazil between 1960
and 1975.
Mengele joined Heinrich Himmler's
SS in 1938 and was transferred to
Auschwitz in 1943. He was one of the
doctors that selected which prisoners
would live or die upon arrival in the
camp. Later he became more famous
for his torturous experiments on chil-
dren and twins.
At war's end Mengele fled to South
America, where he lived in wealth,
then poverty, until his accidental
death by drowning in Brazil in 1979.
"Scholarly institutions or historic
collections should obtain these writ-
ings not as a 'remembrance' of a hor-
rific period of world history, but more
as a learning tool for future genera-
tions to recognize the psychopathic
mentality that incited the Holocaust
so that similar genocides are never
repeated;' Bill Panagopoulos, presi-
dent of the auction house, said.
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Arson Suspected
In Major Forest Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arson is
suspected in a major forest fire in
Jerusalem that led to the evacuation
of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memo-
rial museum.
The fire was under control by
Sunday night after burning nearly
40 acres of the Jerusalem Forest and
forcing the evacuation of Yad Vashem
and some streets in Jerusalem neigh-
borhoods.
The blaze reportedly began in four
areas of the forest simultaneously
on Sunday afternoon, leading to the
arson suspicion.
The fire approached the Har Nof
and Bayit Vegan neighborhoods
of Jerusalem and an oil refinery.
Some homes were evacuated as a
precaution and the area around the
refinery was secured. Yad Vashem
employees reportedly were prepared
for an emergency evacuation of the
museum's most important artifacts,
the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Israeli military was mobilized
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