Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

Eva Mozes Kor a Lisa Rojany Buccieri
Tanglewood • 2009

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 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 kno...wn as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele and subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival. Through this book, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.
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HODNOTENIE:  ***"Jednoho dne jsme v učebnici matematiky došli ke slovní úloze, která zňela: Když máte pět Židu a dva z nich zabijete, kolik vám jich zbyde?" (s.29)."Představte si, že jdete na animovaný film a předtím vám promítnou instrukce, jak chytit a zabít Žida." (s.29). Eva a Miriam Mozesové sa narodili ako jednovaječné dvojičky v Rumunsku, v roku 1934. Počas druhej svetovej vojny boli[...]

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 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 and subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival. Through this book, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.