| | Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz |  | Authors: Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel, Lucette Matalon Lagnado
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
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ISBN: 0688096956
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.151092
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Publication Date: April 1991
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Testament to suvivors of horror June 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This harrowing book traces both the life of 'the angel of death', the psycopathic monster, Dr Josef Mengele, and his victims who survived.
Mengele carried out a range of horrific experiments on a range of people, mainly twins. particularly Jewish and Gipsey children, and various others.
As Mengele's life is described, so is the life of the survivors, the horrors that they experienced at Auschwitz and how they lived in the decades afterwards.
"Most of the twins began their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away from them to be killed. In their special barracks, located just yards away from the crematoriums, they observed the Nazis' extermination of Jews at close range. Twins as young as five and six years of age endured torture, daily blood tests and starvation diets, as well as facing exposure to epidemics of cholera, tuberculosis and other deadly diseases that were rampant because of unsanitary conditions. Worst of all, of course, were the Mengele's barbaric pseudoscientific experiments. But as horrific as their lives were the twins enjoyed a special privileged status, for they were regarded as "Mengele's children". And as such they were spared the random selections and march to the gas chambers that threatened every other Auschwitz inmate'.
The testimony of a handful of survivors illustrates the horror of Mengele and Auschwitz, and the scars of the experiences suffered by his victims, and how they experienced them through their lives.
In the testimony of Moshe Offer, who was twelve years old at the time: 'When they opened the doors to our cattle cars, there were lots of dead children. During the trip, some mothers couldn't bare to hear the sound of their hungry babies-and so they killed them. I remember two blond, very beautiful children in my car, whose mother had choked them to death because she could not stand to watch them suffer'.
Eva Mozes, who was nine years old at the time, recounts how, at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she and her twin sister were packed into filthy, rat infested barracks, together with hundreds of other little girls.
She remembers seeing three dead children on the ground. Later they would always be finding dead children on the floor of the latrines.
From their barracks they could see huge, smoking chimneys rising high above the camp. There were glowing flames rising above them. ' " Why are they burning so late in the evening?" I asked the other children. "The Germans are burning people they answered".
Twins Hedvah and Leah Stern. who were thirteen years old at the time, recount how Mengele tried to change the colour of their eyes:' One day we were given eye drops. Afterwards, we could not see for several days. We though the Nazis had made us blind.
We were very frightened of the experiments. They took a lot of blood from us. We fainted several times, and the SS guards were very amused.
We were not very developed. The Nazis made us remove our clothes and they took photographs of us.
The SS guards would point to us and laugh. We stood naked in front of these young Nazi thugs, shaking from cold and fear, and they laughed."
The first few chapters of the book deal with Mengele's role in Auschwitz itself, and the rest of the book relates Eichmann's experience in hiding in South America, and the way the surviving twins built up lives and families for themselves, most of them in Israel, while the nightmare of Auschwitz would scar and effect them forever.Most of the twins longed to emigrate to the Land of Israel, then the British Colony of Palestine.
They soon found that the Communist rulers of their former homes in lands like Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania, were hostile to the Jewish people too, and pesecuted those who wanted to go to Israel and those who wanted to hold onto their Jewish faith, as 'Zionists'. Thus developed that form of Leftist anti-Semitism known as anti-Zionism, which was incubated by the Soviet Union, and is endemic among the international left today.
The rest of the book deals with how Mengele dwindled in exile into a neurotic and bitter non-being. The surivors describe their lives in Israel and elsewhere, after the war, their often fearful behaviour, their nightmares and their treatment, and also how they built up new lives and families, which live on in the Jewish homeland.
Mengele died after suffering a stroke and drowning in 1979, in Brazil.
 Chilling account of Mengle from his smallest victims June 5, 1999
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
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. This book paints Mengle not only as a monster but as a human and shows the compassion with which he treated the beloved twins. Twins that were vital to his " scientific research". If one is easy nauseated by the Holocaust I would reccomend shying away form this work. The twins are very detailed in their accounts of their time at Auschwtiz Birkenau.
Children Of The Flames A 'Must Read' December 17, 1998
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
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 Ethnic groups who were not of 'Pure' Aryian blood. It was intended that after the systematic annihilation of the Jews, Gypsies, and all Slavic people, the Nazi Party would encourage the 'Repopulation' of its lands with Pure Germanic stock. The so-called 'medical' experimentation on twins under the direct supervision of Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz, was most atrocious and horrific. This book contains vague recollections of torture of children by a deceptively handsome Dr. Mengele, who would hand candy to a child with a sincere smile and then send them to either the Gas Chambers for execution or for surgery (performed without anesthesis). This book chronicles the twins testimonies and also provides a chronology of the infamous Dr. Mengele and his 'career'. It is a numbing book to read. It is a book of horrors, and yet, it should be read by every human being regardless of age. For in a chosen ignorance of what the evil in people can do, the world is setting the stage once again for it to happen. It is happening again in countries like Bosnia even at the time of this writing. Read this book! Learn! and do not be afraid to exersize your right to complain or demonstrate your disgust when you see evil doings in your life. Freedom isn't free. It must be constantly defended and protected. God Bless all those who suffered and who continue to suffer at the hands of the Evil One. The Evildoers af the world will all kneel and answer and Pay for what they did and do now. There is a God. and revenge shall be his.
Mengele's terrifying torture of twins at Auschwitz December 11, 1997
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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
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