Surviving the Angel of Death
The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
by Eva Mozes Kor
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appears in Holocaust, History, and Nonfiction.
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 sur...
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