The World - News from Feb. 5, 1985

Survivors of Dr. Josef Mengele’s pseudo-medical experiments at Auschwitz recalled how the Nazi death-camp doctor chose his victims. “We were selected like potatoes,” Zerah Taub said during the first of three days of testimony before a Jerusalem conference organized by former camp inmates. Mengele, seeking ways of manipulating genes to create blue-eyed blonds for a Nazi “super race,” would stand like Napoleon as he selected his victims--one hand on his chest and the other brushing a stick across his boots, Taub, now an Israeli resident, recalled.