Joseph Mengele

... pulled us out of our barracks, at all hours of the day and night, many of us wearing the thin cotton prisoners’ uniforms and others naked. We stood in the cold, and they counted us. A German soldier walked up to each of us and looked us in the eyes. Off to the right stood the infamous Doctor of Death, Joseph Mengele. Whomever Mengele pointed to had his number written down. One day during the ‘Apel,’ my father’s number was written down. We looked at each other. It was well known that when your number was written down you were just hours, or maybe days, from the gas chambers. ...