She Was Capture In Hungary
Zisblatt lived in Hungary with her parents and five
siblings. In 1942, when she was 11, her mother, Rachel, sewed the
diamonds into the hem of her skirt before she was taken by the Nazis
to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
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Mengele Tortured Her
She was a favorite of Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed experiments
and surgeries on her without anesthesia.
Mengele injected chemicals into her eyes in an attempt to change
their color and injected viruses under Zisblatt's fingernail. He
surgically remove the numbers tattooed on her arm.
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Her Entire Family Was Gassed
Zisblatt's entire family was killed in the gas chambers.
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A Nurse Was To Kill Her
Mengele told his nurse to administer a lethal injection, but
the nurse worked for the underground and faked it.
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Defecating In The Corner
Young Irene hid her diamonds by swallowing and sh*tting them
over and over again. She did this for 15 months.
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Irene Escapes
In 1945, Irene escaped. Exhausted and covered in lice, they walked
through the forest and managed to stay alive by digging up food.
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Patton Rescues Irene
She was liberated by Gen. George Patton's Third Army.
After her recovery, she was taken in by relatives in America and began
a new life with a new name. She married in 1956, and although she had
been given watery soup filled with chemicals to destroy her
reproductive organs, she gave birth to a son and a daughter in the
1960s.
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She Was Silent For 50 Years
Zisblatt had vowed that if she survived, she would be a voice for
her fellow prisoners. But it was not until her son asked her about the
Holocaust that she was ready to share her story.
''For 50 years, I didn't say a word. I didn't want my children to
live with my pain,'' she said.
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