Surviving the Angel of Death

Surviving the Angel of Death
By Eva Moses and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
Tanglewood Pub., 2009. 141 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction

Ten-year-old Eva Mozes and her family were deported to Auschwitz, where most of her family was sent to the gas chambers. However, Eva and her twin sister Miriam were selected to be part of the group of twins that infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, saved in order to make them the subject of horrific experiments. Eva is determined to keep herself and her sister alive.

Eva Mozes Kor has shared her story with adult audiences; here it is adapted for teen readers. I didn't particularly care for the writing style; the story is told in the first person, with adult Eva looking back at her life, which seemed to distance me from the story a little bit. However, Eva's story, and the story of any of Mengele's twins, is an important one for teens and adults to know about.

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