Survivor of horror went on to celebrate life

“She celebrated life,” Daphne Able said of her mother Annetta, who passed away last month.

On her 101st birthday in February this year, Annetta was officially recognised as the world’s oldest twin to have survived the medical experiments of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz.

“Something she always said was that she doesn’t want to be remembered, or thought of all the time, as a Holocaust victim,” Daphne told the AJN.

“That was very important to her, that people shouldn’t feel sorry for her, because she did so much with her life after that.

“The sad part was, of course, that she lost her entire family – the most important people being her mother and her little sister. But the thing that gave her strength throughout her life was having her identical twin, because she always said Stephanie and her were two parts of one person.”