Irene hizme biography

By all accounts, Irene Hizme shouldn’t have lived through her three years at Auschwitz, where she suffered daily medical experiments at the hands of the Nazis’ Angel of Death — Dr.

Josef Mengele.

Most of the other little girls just like her never made it out alive.

But Hizme — only 6 when she and her twin brother, Rene, were ripped from their mother’s arms and selected as test subjects — managed to persevere.

Amid the suffocating pall of death, there was just one lesson.

“The only thing I learned was how to survive,” Hizme, 75, told The Post.

Today, she lives in Oceanside, LI, and is surviving a different tormentor — multiple sclerosis.

But the retired computer programmer, mother of two and grandmother of four refuses to succumb, giving talks about the Holocaust to ensure that her survival — and her family’s demise — wasn’t for naught.
She also has a creative outlet — art.

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