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Analysis Of Surviving The Angel Of Death By Eva Mozes Kor

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Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz is written by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. Kor is a Holocaust survivior and is internationally known for her knowledge of the Holocaust, human rights, and medical ethics. Co-author, Lisa Buccieri, has written many award winning and best-selling books. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz was written in 2009 and published by Tanglewood Publishing located in Terre Haute, Indiana. Kor and Buccieri’s work is a biography. Eva Mozes Kor wrote this biography to share her experiences before, during, and after being held prisoner in Auschwitz as one of Mengele’s twins. “’I will tell what these monsters did to us.’ Back then I did not understand …show more content…

During Eva Kor’s time of much experimentation by Dr. Mengele, she becomes very ill from an injection causing her to go to the infirmary. Kor was aware that if she died her sister would be killed as well because she would be no longer useful in their experimentation. “I am going to get well, I kept repeating to myself. I must live. I must survive. The need to get water overpowered me” (Kor and Buccieri 66). Kor’s determination of survival saved both the life of her and her sister. After Kor and her sister were liberated from the concentration camp, they were homeless and without a family. Kor makes an important point towards the end of her writing about the need for love. “She expresses the basic need for affection she and Miriam had after liberation and the inability of grown Holocaust survivers to provide it” (Scheinerman). Finally, Kor expresses the importance of forgiveness. “Anger and hate are seeds that germinate war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace. It is the ultimate act of self-healing. I look at forgiveness as the summit of a very tall mountain” (Kor and Buccieri 133). Although Eva Mozes Kor suffered through the pain of being imprisoned in Auschwitz, and lost all of her family members, she is able to still find the importance in

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