In the summer of 1944 Eva, her twin sister Miriam, their parents and two older sisters, are loaded on a cattle train and taken to Auschwitz. On arrival, Eva and Miriam are separated from the rest of their family and taken under the 'care' of Dr Josef Mengele. They are just ten years old.

On their first night at Auschwitz, Eva recognises that as the more determined of the two, she will do her utmost to ensure that they get out of that horrific place alive. Over the course of the next months, Mengele injects both Eva and Miriam with chemicals and pathogens but Evaq's strong wills prevails. In January 1945 She and Miriam leave Auschwitz after it is liberated by the Soviet army.

The narrative is told in the first person in simple, stark language and it almost feels like Eva is right there with you in the room, gently recounting the horrors to which she and so many others were subjected. Later on in life, Eva forgave the Nazis and Josef Mengele and spent the rest of her life spreading a message of hope and redemption. Eva Mozes Kor died in 2020.

This is a book that can easily be read in a day but its impact will stay with you forever. Eva's spirit, her youth and her sheer willpower to survive will ensure that whoever reads this book will never forget the horror of the Holocaust.