Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911 and died February 7, 1979. He was a German SS officer and a physician in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during WWII. He was a member of the team of doctors who were responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on the prisoners. He left Auschwitz on January 17, 1945 before the Soviet Union liberated the camp. he then went to South America to evade being captured.