Surviving the Angel of Death
The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £7.49
Publisher Description
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults, readers learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil and Eva's recovery and her controversial but often misunderstood decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Readers will learn of how she triumphed over unfathomable pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education.
The new edition provides interesting details and important context to the events related in the original story. A new Afterword by publisher Peggy Porter Tierney offers a richer portrayal of Eva as a person, the truth behind the controversies, and the eventful last ten years of her life.
Customer Reviews
Good read but for all the wrong reasons
This book is really good to read but it should never have had to become a book because of the awful things that happened for this book to become one. Such heartbreaking feelings because of the sheer trauma inflicted upon everyone that went through these camps but for little children it has to be much worse. I have visited Auschwitz twice now and it’s still such a harrowing experience.