Powerful story of Eva and Miriam Mozes, who were taken to Auschwitz and experimented on by Mengele. They survived. The storytelling style of this book, written as a collaboration between Kor and writer Danica Davidson, is stark, almost numb, and is a remarkably effective communication of events that are so inhumane as to be hard to believe. Eva's extraordinary will to survive and her furious inner life underpin the litany of terrible experiences, and give the memoir life. I love that this book speaks to survival on a physical level, but also, later, to how Eva came to better mental health and a place of healing.

I'm annoyed that the cover currently only lists Kor as the author, but I really appreciate the collaboration between Davidson and Kor is discussed extensively and openly both before and after the main text.
Advanced Readers' Copy provided by Edelweiss.

As a bookseller I was given the opportunity to read I Will Protect You early, and I'm glad I did. I feel like I was unprepared for the reality of Aushcwitz. Part of this books purpose aims to rectify that. So that history, even when it was brutal, can still be learned. Through Eva and Miriam's experiences we are transported to a labor camp, later to Auschwitz and Dr. Mengele's lab, seeing the horrors they faced. The text is removed enough to keep a barrier between the reader and too much reality, but it was still enough to pack a punch. Danica Davidson's writing brought me so close to Eva and Miriam. I felt, by the end of it, that I knew them. They came alive and I cheered their bravery, and cried with their sorrows. There is a happy ending though, Eva and Miriam did grow up. Thus with Davidson's help Eva was able to tell her story. I look forward to reading it again when it is released in January, and hand selling I Will Protect You.