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The Hero Who Saved Children in Auschwitz

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Survivors of Auschwitz recount the extraordinary bravery of Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked his life to protect children from execution. By labeling them as twins, he gave them a chance to live and mitigated the harm from Dr. Josef Mengele’s pseudo-medical experiments.

Funding for the PBS presentation of THE LAST TWINS provided by The Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism.
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