title: Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
author:  Lucette Matalon Lagnado 
description: Only 160 of 3000 twins subjected to genetic experimentation by Mengele survived until 1945. The reprint of this important addition to Holocaust literature is scheduled to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 30. Photos. <BR>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
  
  
  Penguin USA
  
  
  ISBN: 0140169318
  
  
  Paperback Reprint edition (May 1992) Preface.
  
  
  CANDLES IN THE NIGHT.
  
  
  In the winter of 1984, I was asked by Parade magazine to seek out the longlost
  child survivors of Dr. Josef Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz during World
  War II. Of the estimated three thousand twins-most of them young children-who
  had passed through Mengele’s laboratories between 1943 and 1944, only about a
  hundred were known to have survived. Many fewer were thought to be still alive
  when I undertook my search for them in America and Israel.
  
  
  I was aided in this effort by Eva and Miriam Mores, twin sisters who had
  undergone painful experiments at Mengele’s hands. Eva, an American housewife
  living in Terre Haute, Indiana, had long believed the twins’ ordeal, which had
  received no more than a passing reference in the history of the Holocaust,
  should be told. Determined to reunite all the surviving twins, Ev