Title: "I will Protect you- A story  of Twins who Survived Auschwitz"

Author: Eva Mozes Kor with Danica Davidson

Grade: A

Synopsis

Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in their school. Then, in 1944, ten-year-old Eva and her family were deported to Auschwitz. At its gates, Eva and Miriam were separated from their parents and other siblings, selected as subjects for Dr. Mengele's infamous medical experiments.

During the course of the war, Mengele would experiment on 3,000 twins. Only 160 would survive--including Eva and Miriam.

Writing with her friend Danica Davidson, Eva reveals how two young girls were able to survive the unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi regime, while also eventually finding healing and the capacity to forgive. Spare and poignant, I Will Protect You is a vital memoir of survival, loss, and forgiveness.

Review

Being a twin myself, my curiosity was peaked when reading the title of this book. I have read a large variety of book about the Holocaust but have never read a book about survivors of the experiments of Dr. Mengele. The ones I have read from a child's point of view about the Holocaust have all been fiction so it was interesting to read a non-fiction book. It made everything a little more real as I was reading through the book. Davidson does a great job describing the when is happening so that the reader feels like they were there with Eva and Miriam. It is a book aimed towered a younger audience but is detailed enough that older readers would want to read it as well. 

One of the part of the book that struck me the most was the sheer bravery and the situation that these children were put through at such a young age. I knew that there were children in concentration camps but this was almost a lightbulb moment for me. Eva and Miriam had to completely fend for themselves and make life altering decisions before they would even have graduated from elementary school. There is a part where the twins get separated due to side effects from one of Dr. Mengele's experiments and the bravery and the split second thinking these girls is unimaginable. These are just two of the many children that were in concentration camps but I think are truly two of the bravest girls I have ever read about.

You can read more about Danica Davidon's other books and find out more information from "I will Protect You" by visiting her website.

Happy reading!

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