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The Last Twins is the never-before-told story of an unsung hero of the Holocaust, Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked eve | dG1fYmdwbWcyYkl6ZlE
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00:00I knew that my father and his sister were in Auschwitz.
00:07I also knew that you don't ask your father about the Holocaust.
00:15Ernst V. Spiegel was 29 years old when he was deported,
00:19along with 430,000 Hungarian Jews, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
00:24Mangelet was going along and asked for Zwillinge.
00:30Zwillinge is German for twins.
00:33I was 11 years old, 11 big.
00:38The first question was, when can we see our mother?
00:41He said, I'm sorry, but look at the flames over there.
00:46Sometimes siblings who bore a striking resemblance to each other
00:50were mistakenly identified as twins.
00:54No.
00:55Ernst V. Spiegel changed the boys' birthdates,
00:58making them twins, and effectively saving their lives.
01:01They gave it to me.
01:03They gave it to me.
01:05They gave it to me.
01:09Children were spared from immediate death if they were twins.
01:12Alive, but destined to become subjects in the macabre experiments
01:15of the camp's chief doctor, Joseph Mengele.
01:19I started trying for a little while, and then never again.
01:25Though he was in charge of the twins, Spiegel was also a subject of Mengele's experiments.
01:31Through it all, he remained focused on the well-being of the boys.
01:34He started teaching us a little bit of math here, a little bit of geography.
01:38He was a father figure to us.
01:40I saw the first Russian soldier passing by under the window.
01:46And that's it.
01:47That's liberation.
01:49Spiegel had the idea of assembling the kids and taking them home.
01:53They faced the prospect of a long and dangerous journey back to their homes,
01:58uncertain if those homes even still existed.
02:01We went on trucks, trains, walked into bitter cold.
02:06It took us nearly two months.
02:11Not many people can say that they owe their life to some stranger.
02:18It is a story that the hero is my father.
02:21But the questions that we should ask ourselves.
02:26Who are we?
02:27And what would we choose to do?
02:29Who are we?
02:39What's the?
02:43What the truth is not공?
02:46A child, who has found a little Geron and mother
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