Austen Fenton

Ms. Burke

Honors English 11

6/16/17

Annotation

"Josef Mengele." Josef Mengele. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, n.d. Web. 17 May

2017.

Henrietta was a poor black women who developed cervical cancer at the age of 30 then

later on had her cells stolen from her and sold. Her family continued to live without

knowing of this and without profit. In the Holocaust meant Jews experienced the

horrifying effects of medical experiments in the concentration camps. It doesn’t seem like

these two have any similarities but they are more similar then not. One of the top doctors

in these medical experiments was Josef Mengele who performed horrifying experiments

on his patients. Josef is one of the most infamous doctors that came out of the Holocaust.

In the article it talks about Mengele being a brilliant good looking guy. When he was a

young man he went to a university to study physical anthropology and genetics. Mengele

also served sometime in the military and was injured and declared unfit for combat. Then

he made his way to Auschwitz where he performed some of the most gruesome

experiments of the Holocaust. Some of these experiments involved twins which Mengele

was most interested in.

Maltz, Judy. "Horror of Nazi Medical Experiments Emerges in Holocaust Survivor's Account."
Haaretz.com. N.p., 25 Jan. 2016. Web. 18 May 2017.

During the holocaust many doctors did studies on patients and recorded data they sought

necessary too. Most of the victims of these experiments did not survive. Although some

survived and discuss their experience. Heinz Reimer was one of the victims of some of

the most gruesome medicals experiments in history. He was one of the few inmates to

ever survive the hypothermia experiment. This was when the patient would get

submerged into freezing water and then at the point of passing out be thrown into a

scolding hot bath. Heinz said that this experiment was conducted on is a numerous

amount of times. He was also infected by different forms of diseases then given different

serums to see which ones worked for the disease. He was infected with the malaria

disease multiple times. The Natizs put Heinz in a big glass container with infected

mosquitos. When Heinz tried to resist he was lashed with a bull whip.

Henrietta was a poor black women who developed cervical cancer at the age of 30 then

later on had her cells stolen from her and sold. Her family continued to live without

knowing of this and without profit. In the Holocaust meant Jews experienced the

horrifying effects of medical experiments in the concentration camps. It doesn’t seem like

these two have any similarities but they are more similar then not. In the story of

Henrietta when she went to these doctors to get better they found out that there was

something special about Henrietta’s cells. Then without her consent the doctors took her

cells and proceeded to do research on them without Henrietta or any of her family

knowing. Now one might ask themselves how this has to do with the medical

experiments in the Holocaust. Yes the medical procedures that they performed in the

holocaust were very different from taking cells from just another poor black women.
 These Jews were tortured and suffered severe pain from these experiments. Now a days

the data that was found in these experiments is still being used today. Just like

Henrietta’s cells are being used today. Some argue that it’s wrong that they are using this

medical data from the Holocaust because the way they distracted this information was

gruesome. Others argue that if these people went through all of this then this data should

be shared. But how this is similar to the Henrietta story is information and data was

taken from both Henrietta and the Jews in the holocaust. Also there is very little

recognition that was given to these poor people who have suffered and Henrietta whose

family has been living in poverty while millions of dollars are being made off of her

cells.

The Twins Eva and Miriam Mozes Survived Auschwitz. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017.

Out of all of the experiments done on Jews in the holocaust the most intriguing would be

the ones with twins. In this article it states that there was mass amounts off different

experiments done on these twins such as trying to chance their eye color, transfusions of

blood, and even trying to chance the sex of the twin. There were 3000 twins to pass

through Auschwitz but only roughly 200 survived and shared their story such as Eva and

Miriam Mozes. They grew up in a small family living in a small village in Romania

when in March of 1944 they were told they are being relocated. They were then taken to

a ghetto and deported to Auschwitz. Eva tells the story of when she first arrived to the

camp. Her Miriam and their mother got out of the cattle car her mother gripping the girls

hands tightly when an SS soldier approached them asking if they were twins.

Immediately after they found out they were twins they were taken from their mother

without any warning or explanation. From there on gruesome experiments where done to
 the girls as in giving them shots to give them disease to see how the other would react.

The girls also saw the horrifying effects of Mengele trying to sow twins together to create

Siamese twins. It was a miracle that the two girls survived. Later in life they

experienced many serious health problems as a result of these experiments. Miriam’s

kidneys never fully formed and she died in 1993. Most likely a result of the experiments.

"Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine |." The Holocaust History - A

People's and Survivor History - Remember.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017.

In this article it talks about all the different medical experiments that they performed on

people in the Holocaust. Some of these include freezing, genetics, infectious diseases,

surgery and many more. What they would do for the freezing experiment is the Nazis

would put the person in freezing water then take them out and see how fast they could

warmup the body. These experiments where done to see what the most effective way to

warm soldiers up in the war. Most of these freezing experiments lead to hypothermia and

also death. During this time there were many different kinds of diseases that where

unknown to science. So during this time many Jews where infected with different

diseases and the Nazis tested different cures. This lead too many medical problems if

survived. The Nazis also did many surgeries on Jews including mutilation and cutting

open the victim to examine the human body. They would also take different body parts

and see if they could attach them in place of other limbs. Genetic testing was also a very

popular medical study that they did. The reason Hitler selected all of these people in

these concentration camps was because he wanted to create the perfect race of people. So

they did studies to test if they can chance the genes of people.