Children of the flames
Subtitle: Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz
By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado & Sheila Cohn Dekel.
Contributors: Dekel, Sheila Cohn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Mengele, Josef, 1911-; 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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.