This book was overall very interesting, and of course I cared deeply for the protagonist, Eva, who was exceedingly birght and talented. I also liked the messages Eva was able to offer. However,this book is too frightening in its details for children 8-12, especially in light of the present political situation in the U.S. and other parts of the world. My 11 year old grandaughter asked me to read this, and I look forward to discussing it with her. Both Eva's memory and her will to survivie are amazing! And so much that happened was so much more complex than what was presented, I am sorry that innocent people may have been maligned and that the Resistance and Partisans were just mentioned in passing. ( )

Wow. Every once in a while, you read a book that pierces you through the heart and changes it forever. Being a true story and dealing with the Holocaust, I knew this story would be emotional, but I truly didn’t expect it to affect me as strongly as it did. Learning of Eva Mozes Kor’s story and so many others like her, is as life-changing and heroic as Anne Frank’s story.

Before reading I WILL PROTECT YOU, I knew little about Dr. Mengele (known as The Angel of Death) and his genetic experiments and research on the young twin prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. I’m baffled how he (and the countless other Nazis) could hate and hurt others so deeply and without remorse.

Although Eva and her twin sister Miriam were so young, they showed extraordinary strength and determination to survive the evil camp, but that’s not where the story ends. The healing that takes place afterwards gives the story a resolution of astonishing hope.

This book is painful to read. It tells of ungodly, horrific acts, but does so in as gracious a way as it can. But the antisemitism, indoctrination, death camps, selection process, gas chambers, and pure evil against humans by other humans like Mengele, Hitler, etc., sickens me.

I’m glad Eva was able to educate people on what happened at the concentration camps and to contribute to this book before her unexpected death while on one of her yearly trips to Auschwitz in 2019.

Disclosure: #CoverLoverBookReview received a complimentary copy of this book. ( )

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. ( )