TWINS OF AUSCHWITZ

The heart-breaking and inspiring memoir of an Auschwitz twin including an epilogue on Eva's incredible recovery and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and lectures Eva Mozes Kor has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust. When she and her family arrived at the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 they were immediately separated. Her parents and sisters were taken to the gas chambers, while Eva and her twin Miriam were herded into the care of Dr Josef Mengele, later to become known as 'the angel of death'. They were just ten years old. The twins were granted the 'privileges' of keeping their own clothes and hair, but they were also subjected to Mengele's sadistic and dangerous medical experiments. Forced daily to fight for survival, many died as a result of Mengele's tests, or from the disease and hunger rife in the camp. Told with beautiful simplicity, emotion and astonishing restraint by a woman whose goals are forgiveness, peace and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world. 229pp, paperback.