1942 portrait of Ita Guttman with her twin children René and Renate. In September 1942, Ita and the twins were sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto. They remained there until December 1943, when they were deported to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, the twins and their mother were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt family camp (“Section BIIb”). Eventually, the twins were separated from their mother and each other. At Auschwitz, the six-year-old children were subjected to the notorious experiments run by SS doctor Josef Mengele. The twins survived the Holocaust, but Ita did not.
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