Most disturbing scene (Spoilers)

The way Josef Mengele was portrayed in this movie was a lot different from other movies. I think those movies didn't depict the evilness and what kind of fear these people were experiencing like the way it was depicted in this film which makes you understand why the people who were tortured by him, hated this man. Probably every Nazi hunter who sees it will understand why most are angered that he was never caught and nobody got justice. I remember that scene when he told Dr. Perl on her FIRST DAY there her whole family would be safe and to tell the Hungarian pregnant women to board the trucks that HE SAID would take them to the infirmary where they would be given shelter, whatever they needed only to find out it was a LIE and that he killed her family and he had also TRICKED and DECEIVED her into, yes, sending those pregnant women to the crematoria but had she knew she would never have done it and that's why she promised herself to never do that or let that happen to them. She's a hero for promising herself to keep them safe and to protect them.

That scene disturbed me too. Another disturbing scene is the flashback of Mengele bringing Dr. Perl to the experimentation block to help deliver the Gypsy woman's twins. She knew exactly what would happen and that there was no way to stop it. In one scene she tries to have a lighthearted conversation with the woman and the next the twins are born and their mother has a bullet in her head. She killed the babies so that atrocities like that didn't have to happen. It's amazing that she was able to build a life for herself after the hell she went through and so many losses. I honestly don't think I could've taken it.

Don't eva let nobody tell you you ain't strong enough

Would have thought they stole that scene from Alan Alda on the bus in the MASH finale...but being that this was based on Perl's life, the horrifying thing is that it more than likely happened exactly as it appeared in this film, and very possibly more than a few times. As a Holocaust survivor's story, Perl's tale is every bit as tragic and implausible as that of the "Schindler's List" survivors.