Title: Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Author: Eva Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
Year: 2009
Genre: Holocaust Memoir
Age: 7th grade up
Summary: Eva details her captivity as a 10 year old in Auschwitz with her identical twin.
Review: This book outraged me and warmed my heart equally. That such atrocities happen to children, being experimented on by a ‘doctor’ after their families have been killed, will make you cry. That the twins survived, helped each other, kept each other human and whole will make you cry with joy. English is not Eva’s first (nor second, nor third) language and the book suffers a bit for it, but it’s still compulsively readable. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust or who would like to know more about what happens inside the camps after reading Anne Frank.
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