She did not know it at the time but this was Dr Josef Mengele, the infamous physician who carried out experiments on inmates.

她当时不知道这个人就是约瑟夫·门格勒--那个对囚犯进行试验的声名狼藉的医学家。 她说“现在是生存还是死亡的时刻，但我们不知道”。

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In 1985, American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed from a graveyard in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.

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And Ruth Elias, who married in Theresienstadt, describes the horrors of pregnancy and childbirth in Auschwitz, her close encounters with Dr. Josef Mengele, and personal ironies of love and survival.

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