Recollections of day-to-day details at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by survivor Kalman Bar-on are being made public for the first time in Canada at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation in Vancouver on Jan. 26 at the Rothstein Theatre.<\/p>\n
The Story of Kalman & Leopold<\/em> features previously unseen testimony, providing a unique glimpse at the Nazi atrocities committed at the extermination camp, given from the vantage point of a Jewish witness posted in a camp guard shack. The presentation takes place on the eve of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.<\/p>\n The testimony of \u201cMengele twin\u201d Kalman Bar-on will be revealed by Richard K. Lowy, a Jewish Canadian and the son of Holocaust survivor Leopold Lowy \u2013 another twin who was subjected to SS doctor Josef Mengele\u2019s gruesome human experiments at Birkenau\u2019s hospital camp during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n Richard Lowy was on a decade-long mission to preserve his father\u2019s recollections as Canada\u2019s last surviving \u201cMengele twin\u201d when his efforts yielded an unforeseen link to Bar-on in Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cI will try to paint this map of fear,\u201d begins Bar-on\u2019s testimony, \u201cpointing out the difference between fear from the paws and boot of SS Guard Sgt. Fritsche Fritz, the palpable fear for our lives when witnessing a delivery of the next batch of walking skeletons to the crematorium, the ice-cold grab in my chest when I am lying on the stone table during the periodic medical checks of Mengele, and the ever-present knowledge that no one, but no one, will survive and emerge from Birkenau.\u201d<\/p>\n