Bronia Rubin Brandman was twelve when she and her three sisters were sent to Auschwitz. When they arrived, Josef Mengele, a Nazi known for his extraordinary cruelty, pointed his white-gloved hand to direct her older sister, Mila, then 20, to a separate line. Without thinking, Bronia ran after her. Their younger sisters, along with all of the other children, were marched from the cattle car to the gas chamber.