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The medical experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps by Dr Joseph Mengele - the "angel of death" - were amongst the worst atrocities of World War II. He was most notorious for his "scientific" experiments with twins. Few of the twins survived and those who did were inevitably traumatized and usually severed from their twin. The authors of this book set up the organization "Candles" to reunite and help the living twins and here dozens of them speak - usually for the first time - about their experiences at the hands of Dr Mengele, about coming to terms with the scars and with survival.
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By Joe E. White Children of the Flames chronicles the notorious medical experimental activities of Dr. Josef Mengele on approximately three thousand twins who passed through the Auschwitz death camp during WWII until its liberation at the end of the war. Only 160 of the three thousand twins survived and now fifty years later they have told their story of how they were given special privileges in Auschwitz due to Mengele's interest in twins and how as a result they have suffered during the past fifty years as the children who survived the still unknown and unexplained medical experiments and injections which they were subjected to at the hands of Josef Mengele who has come to be known as the Angel of Death.
The survivors tell how as children in Auschwitz they were visited by a smiling "Uncle Mengele" who brought them candy and clothes and then had them delivered to his medical laboratory either in trucks painted with the Red Cross emblem or in his own personal car to undergo his heinou
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Since GCSE history I have been an avid reader of books relating to the Holocaust, and despite some people thinking that this is a slightly strange interest, I think it is truly important that we take note of those who survived atrocities worse than what most of us can even begin to comprehend. This book is a truly harrowing account of the Dr Mengele who in one moment chose whether an innocent human would live or die. What shocked me is the transformation from a young, happy child into the most evil villian Auschwitz. Then there are the twins, children whose mothers volunteered them in the hope that it would save them. It did to an extent, the twins were priviledged amongst the Auschwitz population, they lived a life that the other prisioners would have dreamt for but yet they endured the most hideous, unecessary "procedures", most dying, some dying and a slow painful death and others left with the horrific memory of their time in Auschwitz. I loved this book and what will stay with me is the story of the Stern sisters and the last time they saw the mother. I cannot imagine the horror that they suffered.Read this book, if simply for the review on the front, we cannot ignore the words of the Holocaust survivors until each last one has told their story and we have listened.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A very moving account of the children of the holocaust. Hard to imagine children enduring the horrors they suffered. You imagine your own children in their place and it fills you with despair. Mengele's is trully evil incarnate and the children are real heros and heroines to have come through such horror. It makes you want to go back in time and kill all the perpetrators of such unendurable terror.
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Frustrating
This book was quite interesting, although you are left wondering about many of Mengele's victims. The narratives are vague and many are cut too short. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mariama
Interesting !
An excellent choice for any who wants to learn more on the subject ! Comprehensive and elaborate, it is sure to keep you thrilled from first to last page !
Published 2 months ago by michaeln
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The contents of this book are cracking. If you are interseted in this era of history and want to look at a, somewhat overlooked aspect of the holocaust then I strongly recommend... Read more
Published 4 months ago by t
Testament to suvivors of horror
This harrowing book traces both the life of 'the angel of death', the psycopathic monster, Dr Josef Mengele, and his victims who survived. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2008 by Gary Selikow
Chilling account of Mengle from his smallest victims
I read this book while in high school. It was a chilling but memorable account from those involved with the Angel of Death as he was known. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 1999
Children Of The Flames A 'Must Read'
The collective recollection of twins who survived the Auschwitz Death Camp. The sinister Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler had intended from it's inception, to execute any and all... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 1998
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