His family members never stepped forward to claim them. Daniel Romero Muniz, a professor of medicine at the University of Sao Paulo who was behind the identification of Mengele, earlier this month won a lawsuit permitting him to hand over the remains for scientific research, The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, citing Brazilian media.
Mengele fled Germany in , residing in Argentina and Paraguay before arriving in Brazil. In the immediate postwar period, Mengele was in US custody. Unaware that Mengele's name already stood on a list of wanted war criminals, US officials quickly released him. From the summer of until spring , using false papers, Mengele worked as a farmhand near Rosenheim, Bavaria. His prosperous family then aided his emigration to South America. He settled in Argentina. West German authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in , and a request for extradition in In declining health, Mengele suffered a stroke and drowned while swimming at a vacation resort near Bertioga, Brazil, on February 7, Brazilian forensic experts thereafter positively identified the remains as Josef Mengele.
In , DNA evidence confirmed this conclusion. Mengele had eluded his captors for 34 years. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of all donors. Trending keywords:. Featured Content. Tags Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics. Browse A-Z Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically.
Get email notification for articles from Haaretz Follow. Click the alert icon to follow topics: Holocaust. Haaretz Cartoon. Build a Hospital in Sakhnin. Tel Aviv Is Over. Several months ago, the head of the Department of Legal Medicine at the University of Sao Paulo's Medical School obtained permission to use them in his forensic medical courses.
Today, his students are now learning their trade studying Mengele's bones and connecting them to the life story of the man called the "Angel of Death. Mengele died nearly four decades ago when he drowned off the coast of the state of Sao Paulo. He had been on the run for years, hiding while being pursued for performing experiments on inmates and sending thousands of them to the gas chambers during World War II. Mengele's life on the run, and the mystery surrounding his whereabouts, are part of what make his bones a useful teaching tool, Munoz said.
Holding Mengele's skull, Munoz pointed to a small hole in the left cheek bone, which he said was the result of long-term sinusitis.
Munoz said that a German couple who harbored Mengele in Brazil told police that he often suffered from dental abscesses that he himself would treat with a razor blade. These are memories I cannot erase from my mind. Originally from Poland, Gewertz has a tattoo on her left arm identifying her as an Auschwitz prisoner: A
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