Jona Laks

Jona Laks (, born 28 April 1930) is an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was subject to human experimentation by Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the war, she founded and served as chairwoman of the Organization of the Mengele Twins. In January 2015, she addressed the United Nations General Assembly at its International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony. She has been featured in several documentary films.

Biography Jona was nine years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. she and her two sisters, including her twin, Miriam, were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele, not recognizing she was a twin, sent the 14-year-old Jona in the direction of the gas chambers. Jona was tattooed with the number A27725 and Miriam received the number A27700. She addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, January 28, 2015, and participated in a United Nations Radio documentary of her life. She was also featured in the 2006 film Forgiving Dr. Mengele as a foil to the main protagonist, Eva Mozes Kor, another Mengele twin who publicly forgave Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust. Unlike Kor, Laks contended that "some things cannot be forgiven".