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Surviving the Angel of Death is the true story of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam and the place where they were raised.
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"At Auschwitz dying was so easy, Surviving was a fulltime job, We gave them our blood, our bodies, our pride, our dignity, and in turn, they let us live one more day, "
Eva and Miriam began their life as normal as you or I, . .
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They were born to a middleincome family in Romania and were doted on by all for not only being adorable, but for being a matched set as well.
When war broke out, many of Eva's relatives fled to Palestine in order to escape the rumored persecution of the Jews they kept hearing about, but Eva's mother held her ground and refused to move.
By refusing to flee she signed the death certificate for nearly their entire family, Portions of Romania were eventually turned over to Hungarian rule and the family was relocated first to one of the many ghettos and eventually onto a train which would transport them to Auschwitz.
It is there the girls were put under the care of Dr, Josef Mengele.
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The remainder of the book is Eva and Miriam's remarkable tale of survival, Ms. Kor tells of how she and her sister had to endure illness, starvation and experimentation at the hand of the Nazis, And amazingly, at the end of it all she talks about forgiveness, . .
"I hope, in some small way, to send the world a message of forgiveness a message of peace, a message of hope, a message of healing.
Let there be no more wars, no more experiments without informed consent, no more gas chambers, no more bombs, no more hatred, no more killing, no more Auschwitzes.
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This story is such an important one and I applaud Ms, Kor's decision to write it in a style appropriate for children, There are no gory details or any added "shock and awe" factors other than the horrifying reality of life in a concentration camp told, The effect is still chilling, “If you had five Jews, and you killed three Jews, how many Jews would be left”
This was what the author found in her math class workbook in her early schooldays living under Nazi régime.
The early sweetness, living in harmony before the conquest of Nazis and the Condition of them getting worse and the evolving of the antiSemitism in the village was pretty depressing.
Sure I've had read camp experiences of people more than once but not from a perspective ofyear old twins', And i was totally oblivious of the part of experiments done by Dr, Josef Mengele on the children inside concentration camp at Auschwitz,
In some places, it felt a bit overdone verbally to get some optimistic feel for the end but still that makes it a less realistic personally.
The Journey is unbelievable and overwhelming regardless of the seldom verbosity issues, Made me break many times during the go,
I thank Netgalley and friends for randomly selecting to receive the Kindle edition in exchange for this review of mine, "As gémeas de Auschwitz" retrata a história de sobrevivência de Eva Mozes e da sua irmã gémea em Auschwitz, Escolhidas à chegada ao campo de concentração para fazerem parte do grupo de gémeos de Mengele, o Anjo da Morte, Ainda que seja um livro sem um retrato demasiado forte de todas as experiências médicas feitas por Mengele em Auschwitz, permitenos ter uma ideia das atrocidades cometidas em nome de um suposto avanço da ciência.
Um livro que recomendo a todos Escrita super fluida e muito teen, li emhoras, Gostei e é a leitura ideal para quem, como eu, não gosta de livros muito pesados sobre a Segunda Guerra e os campos de concentração, A Jewish family was taken from their small village in Romania in, and sent to Auschwitz, The family consisted of father, mother, and four daughters, The youngest daughters were ten year old identical twins, Eva and Miriam,
Upon arrival, the twins were separated from their family and along with many other sets of twins of various ages, put under the care of Dr.
Josef Mengele The Angel of Death
This is the story of how they were experimented on and how they survived the camp and also their lives following the liberation in.
Another very difficult read from this time in history,
Um livro que me deixou impressionada, Gostei muito desta leitura dramática de Eva, Classificação:,Estrelas
Um dos meus temas preferidos são livros sobre a Segunda Guerra e, por isso, fiquei muito curiosa com esta novidade, ainda para mais, é um livro narrado na primeira pessoa e de alguém que foi um dos gémeos do Dr Mengele.
Eva e Miriam tinham apenasanos quando, juntamente com a sua família, foram levadas para Auschwitz, mas por serem gémeas, foram separadas da família e levadas para serem inspeccionadas pelo Dr.
Mengele.
É um livro muito interessante e que nos permite ficar a conhecer um pouco melhor sobre as atrocidades que foram infligidas aos gémeos do Dr, Mengele. No entanto, sendo uma história na primeira pessoa, confesso que esperava um pouco mais de descrições de cenas chocantes e senti que o livro era muito pequeno.
Não me interpretem mal, temos descrições de acontecimentos que nos fazem arrepiar mas, sendo narrado por alguém que passou na pele, julgava que teríamos muito mais descrições do que faziam aos gémeos.
No entanto, é uma grande leitura e que recomendo a quem gosta da temática, pois nunca é demais relembrar o que aconteceu,
Vejam a minha opinião mais detalhada em vídeo, sitelinkAQUI, SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH: THE TRUE STORY OF A MENGELE TWIN IN AUSCHWITZ
BY: EVA MOZES KOR
This was an honor to read about a twin who for many years suffered from anger towards her parents and the Nazis.
It only takes roughly two hours to read and its purpose is to help other Holocaust survivors and educate young adults the power of forgiveness, This remarkable and harrowing story is told in the first person by a twin named Eva, who survived Auschwitz, She lost her two older sisters and her parents immediately when they were murdered upon arrival to this death camp, Eva and Miriam Mozes were only children and were subjected to Mengele's cruel and inhumane experiments on identical twins, Forced to starve and injected with unknown substances by Mengele, Eva's strength and her iron will to not perish in Auschwitz helped her to live through deplorable conditions.
She says that she was always the stronger twin and knowing that she had to protect her twin sister Miriam helped keep her alive, She says that other victims of Auschwitz who didn't have anybody they knew and cared about were more likely to die, She told herself that she would survive the inhumane treatment and live to be free, By having to help Miriam survive that empowered her determination to be a survivor along with her identical twin Miriam,
The second half of this book is a true testament of a remarkable woman's story of educating young adults and children and other Holocaust survivors.
She also had a mission to educate other United States citizens that the Holocaust was a true and real event that took place, She and her sister Miriam were all that they had after their liberation from the Soviet Union soldiers, They tried going home, but found there was nothing left for them other than a few crumbled pictures taken of their family before they were deported from their home.
They were the only Jewish family in their small village, While they were torn from their home which had an abundance of fruit orchards and animals they returned home to their house and land that produced food that was
taken by the village people.
Eva Mozes and Miriam Mozes went to Palestine to escape the Soviet Union who turned their country into communism, They lived with their Aunt for a while, but didn't like living in a policed state that controlled every aspect of their lives, In Palestine they were greeted by an Uncle and they were finally treated with dignity, Eva and Miriam's father made them promise to move to Palestine if they survived their ordeal, Prior to the family being deported to Auschwitz their father wanted to move their family to Palestine, Their mother resisted moving and that was the kiss of death for everyone in their family except the twins, Eva met her husband in Palestine and they moved to Indiana in the United States,
Eva was continuously teased by the citizens in her town in Indiana, At one point her son asked why Eva couldn't be like the other American mothers, For many years Eva was angry at her parents for not protecting them being mere children who were exposed to Auschwitz and the daily horrors that they were subjected to.
She was also angry at the Nazis who were responsible for the nightmare Eva and Miriam lived through,
Eva found that by forgiving the Nazis and her parents her suffering finally ceased, She founded the acronym CANDLES, which stands for CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ NAZI DEATH LAB EXPERIMENT SURVIVORS, It was a support group,
I think that this book should be required reading for High School students! Eva's message of forgiveness is so powerful and inspirational, She is a true icon and role model even after her death by the legacies she lived as an example, I am so grateful and again I say it was an honor to read this book, I will return to it over and over again,
Publication Date: October,, Available Now!
My huge debt of gratitude for providing me this ARC goes to Net Galley, Eva Mozes Kor and Tanglewood Publishing, This Arc was generously provided in exchange for a fair and honest review, I was not required to make my review so abundantly positive, That was my choice. All opinions are my own,
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