Among the 2,819 liberated Auschwitz inmates, there were 180
children; 52 of them were under 8 years of age. How could they
survive this hell? They managed to survive because they were
wanted for medical research instead of mice and rabbits. But the
German murderers with medical degrees were only keen on a
particular kind of children: they wanted to experiment on twins.
Twins were a special research material of Doctor Mengele and
Doctor Schmidt's. Children who did not belong to that category
were simply murdered. The infants were known by the numbers on
their little hands.