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Children of the Flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

By Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

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May 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780140169317

Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
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About Children of the Flames

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivors, who until now have kept silent about their heinous death-camp ordeals.

About Lucette Matalon Lagnado

Lucette Matalon Lagnado was born in Cairo, Egypt. She is the 2008 recipient of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature,… More about Lucette Matalon Lagnado

About Sheila Cohn Dekel

Sheila Cohn Dekel is the widow of Alex Dekel, an Auschwitz survivor.

Product Details

Category: European World History | Biography & Memoir | Science & Technology

Paperback | $20.00
Published by Penguin Books
May 01, 1992 | 336 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140169317

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Table Of Contents

Children of the Flames – Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel Preface: Candles in the Night
Dramatis Personae
Prologue: The Jazz Bar
1. Mengele and His Children
2. Auschwitz Movie
3. The Angel of Death
4. The Angel Vanishes
5. The Trial That Never Was
6. The Story of Andreas
7. Fugitive’s Idyll
8. The Angel Retreats
9. Brazilian Hideaway
10. The Scholar and the Preacher
11. The Burial of the Dead
Afterword: Children of the Flames – The Roll Call
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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