Please note a change in the schedule for this Saturday 31st January at 0532 ET a special documentary Mengele’s Twins’ their story of the horrific experiences at Auschwitz.
Mengele’s Twins
First aired: Saturday 31 January
Broadcast window: 31 January – 27 February 2015
Program duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds or 30 minutes including the News Bulletins, billboards & promos
Download availability on www.bbc.co.uk/partners: from Saturday 31 January 15:30 GMT for 4 weeks
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We hear about the horrific experiences of Jewish twins at Auschwitz.
Among the horrors perpetrated at the Auschwitz camp were crude and unscientific experiments conducted on Jewish twins. They were masterminded by the notorious Josef Mengele, known as “the Angel of Death”. He was a true believer in the Nazi creed about the alleged genetic shortcomings of Jews.
Survivors of his brutal regime have spoken to the BBC about their experiences. They include Yona Laks who was deported to Auschwitz with her twin sister from the Lodz ghetto in Poland at the age of 14, and Vera Kriegel who arrived at the camp when aged just six.
BBC broadcast times
APM | Sun 05:32 EST