I Have to Save Them: Inspired by a true story, a totally heartbreaking and utterly gripping World War 2 page-turner by Ellie Midwood

Author:Ellie Midwood [Midwood, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Dr. Mengele was in a particularly bad mood for almost the whole of October. Rumors had it, things on the Front weren’t going all that well, but it was Orli’s profound conviction that Herr Doktor’s bad humor had much more to do with the absence of the coveted twins than the Reich slowly losing its grip on war-torn Europe. October passed by without even fraternal twins to add to Dr. Mengele’s macabre collection.

And then, suddenly, he appeared in the infirmary, all bright-eyed and smiling like a boy through the gap in his front teeth, and nearly tore Orli from the woman she was tending to. “Come, come! No time to waste. If it works, it’ll be a breakthrough. All those children from the Family Block, they’ll make themselves useful after all. And to think of it, Hössler wanted to gas them all, ha! Good thing I petitioned for them before the Kommandant. Now he will see, they will all see!”

He didn’t explain exactly what it was that the camp administration was supposed to see, but just seeing him all but dance with anticipation instantly alerted Orli to something sinister brewing in Herr Doktor’s mind.

By the time they walked through the gloomy, sterile corridor of Dr. Mengele’s personal quarters, Orli’s heart was pounding in her chest like a bird trapped in a cage. The air was heavy with the stench of antiseptic, overlaid with a sickly-sweet scent that she had come to associate with Dr. Mengele’s experiments. A shudder of dread ran through her as she followed him into the room where the notorious “Angel of Death” was preparing for his latest diabolical experiment.

Inside the room, a group of frightened children, their eyes wide with terror, were huddled together. Their skin was pallid, their bodies thin and frail from the harsh conditions of the camp. They were not Dr. Mengele’s regular flock groomed to adore him and trust him with their very lives. These were the camp children who had lived through horrors not every adult would even imagine in their lives. Perhaps, that was the reason for the two hulking inmates with the infirmary armbands on their biceps framing the children on both sides. They froze to attention at the sight of the SS physician; the children did as well—the small pitiful army trained so well to fear the gray-green uniform.

It was only a matter of time before they would begin fearing the white coat thrown casually over that uniform, it occurred to Orli.

“You’ll be assisting me here, in the laboratory,” Dr. Mengele said to her over his shoulder as he turned the key in the lock to his private, smaller office. “They—” he added with a motion of the head toward the men’s infirmary inmates—“will be bringing the children in one by one and your task will be to sit them right here on this chair and hold their heads as still as possible. It is of utmost importance that they don’t twist and turn; you understand? Else, the dye will spread disproportionally, and the experiment will be ruined.

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