Celebr I noticed an article recently about Edith Eger, who died recently at the age of 98, and one of the last living relics of a time few people ever think about and some delusional one’s don’t believe ever happened. She was a trained ballerina dancer in Hungary but when she was 16 years old her Jewish family was uprooted and moved into Auschwitz Concentration Camp. As they got off the train, her parents were categorized as expendable, and she never saw them again. The man standing at the train station who made the selection of who lived or died was Josef Mengele, called the Angel of Death.
Mengele was a Dr. who performed surgical experiments on camp victims, particularly on twins where one could be the control while he worked on the other. Although a butcher who enjoyed his experiments, he was a lover of the arts and would frequently come to Eger’s barracks at night and ask her to dance for him as the camp orchestra played “The Blue Danube”.
When the war ended the surviving victims were sent by foot on a death march where most perished along the way. While she was lying on dead bodies with barely a breath left, she noticed a hand in front of her face and in its palm was a fistful of colored beads that the voice said was food, today we call M&M’s. She then looked up into the grinning face of an American GI. Her thought was where in the world do men like this come from. Later she emigrated to America and raised a family.
