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