The twins Eva and Miriam Mozes, Jewish girls from Romania

The twins Eva and Miriam Mozes, Jewish girls from Romania. At the age of ten, they were deported to Auschwitz with their parents and two other sisters in May 1944. On arrival they were selected as subjects of Dr Josef Mengele’s experiments and directed to camp, whereas their mother and sisters were murdered in the gas chamber. Their father was also killed in the camp. Eva received prisoner no. A-7063 and Miriam A-7064. Both girls survived to be liberated. In March 1945 they were transported in a group of Jewish children to a Caritas centre in Katowice, then some three months later they were taken under the care of female former prisoners to Chernivtsi (Ukraine) and next they were sent to Slutsk (Belarus). In September 1945 they reached their home village, where they were looked after by their aunt Irena, their only surviving relative. In the photograph, taken in Porţ in 1943, the twins are sitting next to their mother, Zsenia, with Eva on the left and Miriam on the right. Lying in front of them is their cousin Hersch Schmilu. Standing above them, from the left is their sister Aliz, father Alexander, sister Edit and a friend, Luci. Source: APMA-B