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.

アウシュヴィッツの極限状態、特に死の天使メンゲレによる非道な人体実験という絶対的な悪を、十歳の少女の無垢な視線で綴った本作は、単なる生存記録を超えた魂の叙事詩です。冷徹な科学の暴力に晒されながらも、双子の姉妹が互いの存在をよすがに命を繋ぎ止める姿は、読者の胸に人間の尊厳とは何かを激しく問いかけてきます。 最大の見どころは、凄惨な過去を乗り越えた先にある、エヴァが辿り着いた赦しという境地です。それは単なる忘却ではなく、憎しみの連鎖から自らを解放し、自律した未来を勝ち取るための最も強靭な意思表示に他なりません。絶望の深淵から希望を紡ぎ出す著者の言葉は、困難な時代を生きる私たちに、折れない心と真の自由の価値を情熱的に語りかけてくれます。