The Search for Mengele Twin A7734

Though generations have passed, the Holocaust’s victims still suffer the consequences of the Final Solution. One such survivor is 73-year-old Menachem Bodner, a Mengele Twin whom, upon the liberation of Auschwitz, was separated from his brother, whom even today, he has yet to find again. With the aid of social media, he hopes to change that.

Born Ellias Gottesmann, along with his twin brother Jeno, he and his brother were separated from his family upon arrival at Auschwitz, taken to be a part of Dr. Mengele’s infamous twin expiriemnts, while their family, like millions of others, were taken to the gas chambers. In spite of the horrid expiriments forced upon them, both would survive until the camp was liberated. In the chaos of liberation however, he came to be separated from his brother, and instead, met a man who, having lost his wife and daughter, took him as an adopted son, giving him the name Menachem Bodner, which he bears to this day. Now an Israeli grandfather, he seeks to find his lost twin, and is rallying millions of others to help him.

It already will not be an easy search – the one memento he had of his brother and former family, a photo, proved not to be of his own family. So he turned to a far grimmer momento to find his brother – the tattoo upon his arm, just is terrifying as any scar of the Holocaust, the blue inked number on his arm that reads A 7733. His brother Jeno is number A 7734.



The search has rallied dozens of Holocaust Survivor and Memorial groups and thousands of people on the Internet. Now I ask you to help – go to the man’s Facebook page, read the story of both brothers, like the page, tell others to do the same, and if you know anything even possibly connected to the story, please let them know. Just as the Holocaust sought to destroy and divide it’s victims, let us today prove technology and human decency can bring them back together, or at the very least, provide some closure and peace.

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