Twin Children of the Holocaust

Dr. Nancy L. Segal is Psychology Professor and Director, Twin Studies Center, at California State University, Fullerton. Her book Born Together—Reared Apart won the American Psychological Association’s William James Book Award. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Atlantic Monthly. She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and the BBC.

• Foreword by David G. Marwell Preface1. Minneapolis to Auschwitz and Jerusalem: How Did it Happen? 2. Pre-event Activities: Meeting Twins3. Traveling to Poland4. Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau: Reunion and Re-enactment 5. Exploring Auschwitz-Birkenau: An Art Museum, a Chance Meeting and a Trip to the Polish Border6. Medical Experiments: Process and Purpose7. Touring Warsaw: War Memorials and Everyday Life 8. Twin Testimonies: Public Hearing on Josef Mengele’s War Crimes 9. Aftermath: Inquiries and Inquest10. Twin Children of the Holocaust: After the Hearing and BeyondParting WordsAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorOther Books by Nancy L. Segal

“Everyone should read The Twin Children of the Holocaust, but it is especially crucial for scholars, students, educators, and historians. The book offers a profound, visual, and narrative record of survival and justice that can stand alone or serve as a supplementary resource in Holocaust studies, psychology, and history courses. Without a doubt, Segal’s work is a valuable and moving contribution to the field, ensuring that the voices and stories of the twin children of the Holocaust are never forgotten.”— Maryam Fakri, A Journal of Culture and History“This sensitive and insightful registration of memories, glances, speeches and expressions requires a high level of competence, especially because the author is also a Jewish twin, which automatically leads her to identify herself with that group…More than a living memory of the cruelty of the Holocaust, the book is an impressive narrative and photographic testament to resistance, survival and reunion.”— Ana Karina Santos Balinski, The General Psychologist“Archfiend Josef Mengele escaped earthly justice for his ghoulish experiments on child twins and other Auschwitz victims, but Nancy Segal gives them a voice and lights an eternal candle in their memory. A testament to the power of love over evil.”— Ralph Blumenthal, former New York Times reporter on Nazi crimes, and author of The Believer