Twin Holocaust survivors describe arriving at Auschwitz
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2009
- Identical twin sisters Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Tchengar) were born in 1937 in the town of Şimleul Silvaniei (Szilagysomlyo), Transylvania. In 1940, Transylvania was annexed to Hungary, and in June 1942 their father Zvi was taken to a forced labor unit on the Russian front.
With the German conquest of Hungary in March 1944, the familys property and belongings were confiscated, and they were forced to wear a yellow star. In May 1944 Iudit, Lia and their mother, Miriam-Rachel, were interned in a ghetto, and the following month they were deported to Auschwitz, along with many other members of their family.
At Auschwitz, Iudit and Lia suffered the infamous medical experiments of Josef Mengele. The twins always stayed close together. Every night, their mother would sneak into their block and give them her meager portion of bread. She would also take them outside, in all weathers, to wash them and comb their hair, and thus preventing them from getting infested by lice and being doomed to the gas chambers. One day, as Mengele was experimenting on the girls, Miriam-Rachel burst into the shack and begged him to stop. In response, she was injected with a concoction that nearly killed her, and caused her permanent deafness.
In January 1945 the girls and their mother were liberated by the Red Army. They returned to Şimleul Silvaniei, and in August 1945 they were reunited with their father, who had survived many camps. In 1960 the family immigrated to Israel. Both girls married: Lia and her husband Jean have two children and seven grandchildren; Iudit and Moshe have three children and five grandchildren.
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This is actually the saddest thing ever :'( I can't imagen what it would've been like to even be in those camps for a day it's soo depressing. Shows us all how much we take for granted :(
When they said pinch their cheeks to look healthy i suddenly remembered a scene from schindler's list where the women poke themselves needles to use it as lips and cheeks stain coz they must look "alive"
You should never have gone through this horrific thing it's terrible and not right I'm so glad you were able to have children God loves you xx
What incredibly strong women.
Bless these beautiful women
I can’t imagine what pain and horror they went through
Being a Jew myself, this topic is always hard to hear about
How messed up does someone have to be, to give this a thumbs-down?
37 people have, so far. Amazing.
i think being a jew in this day and age gives you a whole new reason to appreciate life. i know once i learned that my grandma immigrated to the US from Hungary in 1938 the first thing i thought was "That was close!" XD. My Grandpa's brother was also experimented on, and they were both sent to a labor camp.
OMG I can't believe you survived getting experimented on!
Twins talk in unison. Hmmm.
I'm just crying rite now watching this video
My God, with tears in the back of my throat~Hallel Yah
i'm gonna cry
I'm so very sorry for these ladies, they were little kids !!! I hate those awful nazi's, I wish I could have helped the little children, and all the other victims off those terrible deathcamps. The nazi's, SS'ers and friends killed al these poor people, and for what ?!!! Only for being Jewish !!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
sad :(
Oh Josef Mengele you so crazy
God Blessings
aww long live India from israel too :) I'm half Indian so.......
you dont wanna know.....
Nazi monsters wouldn't allow them to scream, of course the agony was real.
I've got the same last name as them.. Except I don't think I'm Jewish o.O
Wtf who disliked this vid
@bigDeeOT I love how this had 420 likes when i looked at it and it's almost 420 :3
are theones who catched the twins Germans or Russians ?
beautiful women
to this day...i cringe when I hear German/Germany...i ain't Jewish either
@kailea2323 Sorry but that's me :(