Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele and subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival. Through this book, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.

本書は、ナチスの残酷な人体実験に翻弄された少女の視点を通じ、極限状態における人間の尊厳と精神の強靭さを問う魂の記録です。凄惨な歴史の告発にとどまらず、死の天使メングレの魔手から生き延びる過程でエヴァが抱いた「生への執念」の生々しい心理描写は、文学的にも比類なき重厚さを放っています。 特筆すべきは、地獄を体験した彼女が最終的に「赦し」という境地に達する幕切れの崇高美です。憎しみの連鎖を断ち切り、自らの魂を解放しようとするその決断は、読者に真の強さとは何かを突きつけます。暗闇の中で輝く希望の灯火として、今を生きるすべての人に手にとってほしい救済の物語です。