Eva Mozes Kor

the story of a Mengele twin in Auschwitz

Surviving the angel of death

Lisa Rojany Buccieri

The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

Surviving the Angel of Death

Hannah

Wow. Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor retells her story of living through the Holocaust as one of Josef Mengele’s experimental twins. 

There’s nothing really to say other than Eva tells her very terrible, horrific story in the best way you can. She takes your through her life start to finish, and the lessons she teaches are incredibly valuable. 

I visited Auschwitz just two weeks after Eva’s death, where I learned some about her at the time, but this book gives a much needed extensive look at who she was. It’s a quick read, but packs in so much value.

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.

Surviving the angel of death the story of a Mengele twin in Auschwitz

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