The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who
survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.
Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood.
Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the
Transylvanian mountains, but they didn't think much of it until
anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in their school. Then, in 1944,
ten-year-old Eva and her family were deported to Auschwitz. At its
gates, Eva and Miriam were separated from their parents and other
siblings, selected as subjects for Dr. Mengele's infamous medical
experiments.
During the course of the war, Mengele would experiment on 3,000 twins.
Only 160 would survive--including Eva and Miriam.
Writing with her friend Danica Davidson, Eva reveals how two young girls
were able to survive the unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi regime, while
also eventually finding healing and the capacity to forgive. Spare and
poignant, I Will Protect You is a vital memoir of survival, loss, and
forgiveness.