Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz / Lucette Matalon Lagnado & Sheila Cohn Dekel.
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TextPublication details: New York : Morrow, 1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 320 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0688096956 :; 9780688096953Subject(s): Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979 | Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979 | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | War criminals -- Germany -- Biography | Physicians -- Germany -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland | Human experimentation in medicine | Twins -- Biography | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives | Human Experimentation -- Germany -- History -- Biography | Human Experimentation -- Germany -- History -- Personal Narratives | War Crimes -- Germany -- History -- Biography | War Crimes -- Germany -- History -- Personal Narratives | Physicians -- Germany -- Biography | Physicians -- Germany -- Personal Narratives | Twins -- Germany -- Biography | Twins -- Germany -- Personal Narratives | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives Poland | Human experimentation in medicine | Mengele, Josef | Physicians Biography Germany | Twins Biography | War criminals Biography Germany | World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities PolandAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Children of the flames.DDC classification: 364.15/1/092 LOC classification: DD247.M46 | M38 1990NLM classification: WZ 100Summary: In this remarkable, evocative narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the surviving twins, who are themselves now inching into middle or old age. In stories that abound with ambiguity, anger, and redemptive hope, we encounter them first as children beginning their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away to be killed. Later, we see the twins grateful for the soup and bread Mengele procured for them and reassured by his moments of seemingly genuine affection, yet terrified, always, by what he forced them to endure.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
In this remarkable, evocative narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the surviving twins, who are themselves now inching into middle or old age. In stories that abound with ambiguity, anger, and redemptive hope, we encounter them first as children beginning their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away to be killed. Later, we see the twins grateful for the soup and bread Mengele procured for them and reassured by his moments of seemingly genuine affection, yet terrified, always, by what he forced them to endure.
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