"During World War II, Dr. Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable, evocative 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 death camp ordeals.

"We follow the twins first as children, beginning their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away to be killed, and focus on the years after the Liberation, gruesome deaths of their siblings, and all are condemned to live with a terrible double-edged sword: the hell they suffered because of Mengele, and the life they owe him as 'his' children.

"Here is an entirely new story about the Holocaust and its aftermath--and of the men and women who have achieved a fragile and hard-won triumph over the past." -- Synopsis from the back of the book