As soon as you enter the hospital, you know that something very strange is happening there. No one seems to be trying to cure the patients; no one relieves their suffering. Soon you discover the truth.
Dr. Hans Eysele is in charge. However, he is not interested in medicine. He is interested only in research to prove that Aryans are superior to Jews. He is conducting experiments on the mentally retarded and on twins, experiments that leave nearly all his patients dead.
You wish you could be elsewhere, but you have no choice. Thus you decide to observe, making a mental record of everything you see, so that, should you survive, you can tell about these horrors to the world.
In April 1945, as the American army advances toward Buchenwald, the order is given to shoot all witnesses to the medical experiments. However, the guards fear that the Americans will kill them if they continue shooting innocent Jews. During the commotion that follows, you slip back into the general camp population. The momentary lapse of German discipline helps you survive.
Years later, having gone to America, you find a new career, working for the Jewish Family and Children's Service in a large American city. Most of your work involves helping refugees making new homes for themselves. Soviet Jews, Vietnamese, Cubans, and many others begin new lives with your assistance. Perhaps all the suffering you endured made you better able to perform these mitzvot.
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