Greek-born Jew Yitzhak Ganon in Petach Tikva, Israel. 65 years ago Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele removed his kidney without anesthesia. He never saw a doctor for 65 years till he had a heart attack.
Der Spiegel – Why One Auschwitz Survivor Avoided Doctors for 65 Years:
“I come from Arta, a small city in northern Greece. It happened on Saturday, March 25, 1944. We had just lit the candles to celebrate the Sabbath when an SS officer and a Greek policeman burst into the house. They told us we should get ourselves ready for a big trip. The transport to Auschwitz took two weeks. His sick father died on the journey. Upon arrival, they had to strip and submit to an inspection. Ganon’s mother and five siblings were then sent to the gas chambers. Yitzhak Ganon was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau hospital, where Josef Mengele, the so-called “Angel of Death,” conducted grisly experiments on Jewish prisoners. Ganon had to lie down on a table and was tied down. Without any anesthetics, Mengele cut him open and removed his kidney. “I saw the kidney pulsing in his hand and cried like a crazy man,” Ganon says. “I screamed the ‘Shema Yisrael.’ I begged for death, to stop the suffering.”
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Further reading:“When they had no more use for him, the Nazis sent him to the gas chamber. He survived only by chance: The gas chamber held only 200 people. Ganon was number 201.”
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Al aileh ani bochiya
There is no depth to man’s depravity … and no bound to his potential for kindness.