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[Host] At 91 years old,
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Alina Dabrowska is still consumed
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by the horror of
what happened to her, here.
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It is why she has brought
her granddaughter, Eva,
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for the first time.
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It is why she wanted
to talk to us about her memories.
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And it is why, for 50 years,
she could never set foot in this place.
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[Mrs. Dabrowska] Once,
I tried to come here,
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with my children,
and I couldn't move.
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I seemed paralyzed.
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[Host] In these buildings,
Alina was a victim
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of the cruel experiments
carried out by this man,
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Nazi 'doctor' Josef Mengele,
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known as "The Angel of Death."
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For the first time, Alina is shown
some of the tools used by Mengele
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for his cruel experiments:
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Sterilizations, crude transplants,
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and here, even the typhus
she was injected with
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as a 'guinea pig,' to test medicines.
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I had hallucinations.
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I got a very high fever.
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Never in my life,
earlier and afterward,
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had I known
such a high fever.
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- You thought you were going to die?
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Yes.
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[Host] At nearby Block 10,
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where many of the experiments
took place,
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she could not bring herself
to cross the threshold.
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[Mrs. Dabrowska] I am very glad
that we are here,
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not going further.
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[Host] And who can blame her?
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This remains an eerie,
sickening place,
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of dark corridors,
and rooms with dreadful secrets.
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In one, a dissection table.
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What grotesque atrocities
were carried out
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by doctors, here, in the name
of 'medical research?'
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[Mrs. Dabrowska] I don't think
they are normal men.
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I can't find...a proper English word
for beast..."bestia." So...
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[Host] Beast.
[Mrs. D] Beast.
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[Host] Before she left,
she shows me a mark on her arm.
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It is her prison number: 44165.
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Fading, but with her for life.
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Just like the memories of a place
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she wants her granddaughter,
and the world,
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never to forget.