Josef Mengele
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Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research
Mengele at Solahütte in 1944
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Birkenau, May/June 1944
(from l. to r.) Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Höss at Solahütte in 1944 (Höcker Album)
Jewish children kept alive in Auschwitz for use in Mengele's research. They were liberated in January 1945.
Simon Wiesenthal
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Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration ca
Josef Mengele
…around Buenos Aires, but fled to Paraguay in 1959 and later Brazil in 1960, all while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal, who wanted to bring him to trial. Mengele eluded capture despite extradition requests by the West German government and clandestine operations by the…
Wiesenthal in 1982
Wiesenthal (c. 1940–1945)
Document under the name of Ricardo Klement that Adolf Eichmann used to enter Argentina in 1950
Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles