René and Renate Guttmann became part of SS Dr. Josef Mengele's notorious twins experimentation, after they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center.
They were separated in the camp. One day, René saw his sister from afar. "Nothing was said and I just looked at her and knew she was there," he remembered later. "... From that point on—and maybe even before then—I knew that she was alive. It was the inspiration, it was the motivation, to keep me going."
The twins survived but were taken in by different families after the war. René was sent to a Catholic hospital in Czechoslovakia, and a hospital administrator's family took him in. Renate was placed in an orphanage in France.
A chance opportunity when the twins were nine eventually brought them back together. Renate was chosen to travel to the United States as part of a campaign to raise money for Jewish children's orphanages in France. The doctor who had taken in René spotted her in a Life magazine story about refugee children. An American family that had already decided to adopt Renate adopted René as well.
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Photo: Courtesy of Irene Guttmann Slotkin Hizme
There were probably more than one pair of twins that mad Faust-Xi-like Nazi scientists were experimenting on.
I think you're right.