PAGE 12 - Radar
Supplement Sunday, December 27, 2009
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The terrible history of Yitzhak
Ganon The Holocaust continues to leave stories that keep coming to light. Yitzhak
Ganon is 85 and lives in Petach Tikva, near Tel Aviv. Doctors avoided all his life. Recently, according to German news site Spiegel Online, Yitzhak Ganon came home and felt bad, so bad I could not resist being taken to hospital. On arrival he had a heart attack and doctors had to operate. Thought would not survive the operation because he had discovered a single kidney.
Upon awakening from anesthesia, Yitzhak finally told the story of why he avoided doctors all his life, and stop where her kidney was lost.
"I am of Arta, a city in northern Greece. A Saturday, March 25, 1944, we had hardly lit Sabbath candles at home when an SS officer and a Greek policeman came and told us we could be prepared for a long journey, "says the survivor, which rises sleeve to display a number tattooed in blue ink on his left forearm.
Yitzhak's father died on the journey to Auschwitz. His mother and his five brothers went to the gas chambers. He touched a terrible fate, went to the hospital at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the angel of death, Dr. Mengele, performing unspeakable experiments on prisoners. A
Yitzhak tied to an operating table and right there, without anesthetic or anything, Mengele opened it and took out a kidney. "I saw him throbbing in her hand and screamed like crazy, begged him to kill me, not to suffer more."
After more experiments, when they had nothing to do with him, he was sent to the gas chamber and saved by the Nazi bureaucracy: they entered a maximum of two hundred prisoners, he was the number two hundred one. Yitzhak
returned to Greece after the liberation of Auschwitz, was reunited with two brothers who survived emigrated to Israel in 1949. Is married and swore never again go to the doctor.
Now, after a second heart attack which ended with the implantation of a pacemaker, acknowledges that doctors saved his life. Again, Yitzhak Ganon escaped death.
