Twins? Or Not?

Both boys were injected with substances that caused swelling, fever, vomiting, hoarseness, muteness, and exhaustion. This went on every four to five days over three months until Mengele left Auschwitz.

Menashe had to be hospitalized in Prague for complications resulting from the medical experiments and finally in June 1946, after a prolonged hospitalization, he died. Moshe changed his name to Ephraim in memory of his brother Menashe, after the sons of the biblical Joseph, Ephraim and Menashe. When he later returned to Budapest, none of his family was living. He decided to move on, and start his own family.

Since the experiments, Ephriam has had problems breathing and with shortness of breath due to the experiments. He has had to undergo surgeries because of the effects from the experiments.