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"Mengele's Twins"

The Malek family lived in the village of Moisei in Transylvania under Hungarian rule. Josef (Yom Tov) Malek and his wife Mathilda had six children including twins, Salomon (Shlomo) and Yehudit born in 1930 and Eliyahu and Yaakov born in 1941, and another two sons, Nachum and David Hirsch.

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Jewish children in the children's home in Cluj after the war, among them the young twins Eliyahu and Yaakov Malek.

Jewish children in the children's home in Cluj after the war, among them the young twins Eliyahu and Yaakov Malek.

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