We encounter them first as children, grateful for the soup and bread Mengele procured for them and reassured by his moments of seemingly genuine affection, yet terrified by what he forced them to endure and later as adults, who remade their lives as best they could. In this narrative evocative of the award-winning film, SHOAH, these survivors, now middle-aged or older, recount their experiences in stories that abound with ambiguity and anger. For the most part, Mengele's subjects were twins who, until now, have kept silent, rarely discussing their death camp ordeals, not even with their families and loved ones. Josef Mengele, the long-lost survivors of his notorious medical experiments still grapple with his tortuous legacy. From the rear cover: "Five years after world's greatest manhunt ended with the discovery of the remains of Dr. The date "4-15-91" is written on the front else Very Good+ condition. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.
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