György Kun

 

The last surviving Boy of Mengele’s Twin Medical Experiments at the Auschwitz Death Camp has died.

György Kun died on February 5, 2025 (but his death was announced this week.)

Kun was born on January 23, 1934 in Vállaj, Hungary to Márton Kuhn, a Farm Manager, and his wife Piroska.

His Brother, Istvan, was born 11 months later.

In 1938 Regent Admiral Miklós Horthy created Hungary’s Version of the German Nurenberg Laws which restricted Jewish Life throughout the country.

On March 19, 1944 the Germans invaded Hungary and György Kun and his Family were sent to a Ghetto.

In May 1944 the Germans deported György Kun and his Family to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.

Upon Arrival at Auschwitz György, Istvan and their Mother stood in front of Dr. Josef Mengele who asked their Mother (in German  - which she didn’t understand) if his Children were Twins. Their Mother replied they were.

György and Istvan went into the Camp and their Mother was sent to the Gas Chamber and murdered.

Upon being registered it was discoverd that György and Istvan weren’t Twins since they had different Birth Dates – which would have sent the Boys immediately to the Gas Chambers.

Ernő (Zvi) Spiegel who, with his twin Magda, had been the oldest of the twins deported to Auschwitz and who, for whatever reason, had been appointed “Zwillingevater,” (“Twins’ Father”) to look after the 80 Twin Boys changed the different dates to the same Birthday making them Twins.

It is not known what Medical Experiments Mengele performed on György and Istvan, but both Brothers survived the Liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945 and went back to Hungary where they found their Father had also survived.

Istvan fled Communist Hungary for the United States when the Soviets invaded in 1956. He died 4 years later.

In 1960 György married Agnes and settled in Budapest. They had a Daughter, Andrea.