CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Teens encounter an extraordinary story of cruelty, survival, and healing in Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Tanglewood), by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. The book takes kids where The Diary of Anne Frank cannot, following a young girl into the concentration camp and beyond. With unflinching honesty and simple, accessible language, Surviving the Angel of Death confronts provocative issues like medical ethics, human rights, and the nature of forgiveness. The story is gripping, horrifying, but ultimately uplifting.

When ten-year-old Eva and her identical twin sister were loaded onto a cattle car bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp, they had no idea what awaited them. Separated from their family upon arrival, they were selected to be one of thousands of twins used by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele as human guinea pigs. Miraculously, Eva and her sister survived the camp, and after the war Eva married and settled in the U.S.

Kor believes it's important for kids today to understand what happened in the camps. She doesn't sugarcoat the truth. But in the book, and when she speaks to school groups and at gatherings worldwide, she stresses the need to stand up against injustice, whether it be bullying, abuse, or unfair treatment of another person. If she could overcome what happened to her, then children faced with life challenges can learn to have hope. Teaching about the Holocaust, she believes, can impact how kids treat each other.

As part of her healing process, and in response to having met a Nazi doctor who wanted to atone for his participation, Kor chose a path of forgiveness. Her controversial decision was the subject of the documentary film, Forgiving Dr. Mengele. Her book will inspire kids to think about ethics, morality, and the nature of good and evil.

Kor founded an organization for surviving Mengele twins. In 1995, she opened the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org. She's a recognized speaker, nationally and internationally, on the Holocaust, medical ethics, forgiveness, and peace. Kor has been covered on "60 Minutes," "20/20," and elsewhere. She'll be in Auschwitz in January for the 65th anniversary of the camp's liberation.

SOURCE Tanglewood Press

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