PBS: 'The Last Twins,' Erno Spiegel, Holocaust Hero Saved Kids in Auschwitz from Nazi Dr Mengele Medical Experiments

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Full Documentary, (1 hr. 20 mins), April 13, 2026.

Discover the extraordinary story of Erno 'Zvi' Spiegel, an unsung hero of the Holocaust who risked everything to protect the most vulnerable in Auschwitz - dozens of young boys, many of them twins, targeted by Dr. Josef Mengele for brutal medical experimentation. Through courage, compassion and ingenuity, Spiegel shielded these children from death and unimaginable harm...
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-last-twins-tm2qax/
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- The Last Twins, Erno Spiegel Documentary, PBS, Forward, April 12, 2026. He saved dozens of kids in Auschwitz — and kept it a secret for nearly the rest of his life.
The PBS documentary ‘The Last Twins’ tells the story of Erno Spiegel, who was targeted by Josef Mengele and protected the young people subjected to the Nazi doctor’s experiments.

Erno “Zvi” Spiegel was 29 years old when he was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz along with other members of his family, including his twin sister Magda. As a twin, Spiegel was selected to be a subject for Mengele’s scientific experiments, where he injected subjects with diseases and cancer cells to study their effects on the human body; due to their shared genetics, one twin could serve as a control for the experiment.

If one died from the procedure and the other didn’t, the surviving twin would still be killed and subject to an autopsy to understand why they lived. Mengele also assigned Spiegel to look after the other young people he was experimenting on, whose lives Spiegel would end up saving multiple times.

The PBS documentary The Last Twins, directed by Perri Peltz and Matt O’Neill, captures the deep and unexpected relationship Spiegel had with his charges through interviews with the surviving sets of twins from Mengele’s lab along with Spiegel’s family. Uncle Spiegel, as the twins called him, was the only adult that many of the kids trusted during their imprisonment...
https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/817846/the-last-twins-erno-spiegel-documentary-pbs-judith-richte/