I loved this whole series and the ending was perfect! Kagan does extremely well interweaving many different characters and story lines. I loved that she gives us the POV of each main character when necessary. Like any story set during the holocaust there were times it was difficult to read knowing that things that horrendous actually happened. Thankfully Kagan gives each character the ending they deserve. This is not the first book I've read by this wonderful author and it won't be the last!

This was so sad! I mean the title tells you all you need to know about that. This is a series and I wasn't aware of that beforehand so I had to go back and read books 1 and 2 first. This is book 3. I like this writing style of alternate chapters so much! Lots of twists and turns here that continue from the previous two books. Just know that it's heavy subject matter with concentration camps and WWII so you need to be in the mood.

Super powerful emotional ride .. The kind of book that stays with you.

There are 2 previous books to this series, which I wish I'd read before.

Review via Netgalley

Twins of Auschwitz was an excellent, suspenseful novel of a family of Jews, including twin girls, who are sent to Auschwitz to Dr. Mengele. From what I know the story is historically correct with a few exceptions (would a German working for Dr Mengele help a Jewish family escape Auschwitz? Successful escape from Auschwitz was not done , with very few exceptions) As with a lot of good Holocaust books, this was read with a lump in the throat and a feeling of being transported to a very dark time.

This is the third installment of the Auschwitz Twins trilogy but it can be read as a standalone, the writer provides enough details in the book for the reader to follow along and immersed in the story without having to have read the preceding two books.

As with all of the books by Ms. Kagan this book is an excellent read with lots of research and a plot that grabs you immediately when starting to read the book.
It isn't easy to read a book about the Holocaust and not needing to stop to breath because of the horrors portrayed in the book, but the way that Ms. Kagan writes accomplished just that, it isn't that the atrocities are not there but her writing is so compelling that you keep reading, even though you imagine what's coming next.

In this book we found the twins Perle and Bluma, along with their sister Shoshana in Mengele's twins room, where he performs his "medical experiments". But they find in Dr. Neider their guarding angel.
Without giving too much away, unfortunately Perle's dream from years past comes true, especially at the ending of the book which leaves the reader with a feeling of satisfaction and peace.

The compassion, empathy and sensitivity that Ms. Kagan used in this book makes reading a book about the Holocaust a not so hard subject.

As with so many other
books describing the horror of the Holocaust, this book is equally sad. It centers on the despicable Dr Mengele, the sadistic Nazi doctor, who, in truth, performed horrendous experiment on twins and people with deformities. The details are difficult to read, but important to know in historical context.
The story also brings to light the fictional kind hearted doctor, who despite wearing a Nazi uniform, had a love for his Hippocratic oath, do no harm. Disgusted by the treatment of children in Auschwitz, he helps a family escape the concentration camp.

The writing is interesting, with many pages of the character’s thoughts in italic. The book covers a span of many years, with an epilogue ending in 1976.
All in all, despite unpleasant, but factual subject matter, this was a very good book, filled with glimpses of family devotion, bravery, survival and love.

Thank you, NetGalley, and The Book Whisperer publishing,
for the advance copy of this book.
4 1/2 stars

I just finished The Auschwitz Twins by Roberta Kagan (not to be confused with The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Moses Kor), about the horrific twin experiments performed by Dr. Mengele during the Holocaust. This historical fiction alternates between multiple perspectives but follows the lives of a few main characters, as well as occasional supporting characters. First, there is a Jewish family of five, made up of 8 year old twins Bluma and Perle, their older sister Shoshana, and parents Herschel and Naomi, who are separated from the girls when boarding a train in the Warsaw ghetto. The girls end up in Auschwitz and meet Dr. Mengele and his assistant Dr. Ernst Neider, a newlywed who hopes to impress his new wife with his prestigious job, but despises working for Mengele.

I enjoyed the story quite a bit, but I wished there was a bit more of a focus on Mengele and the twins. I definitely was hoping for a bit more of a look at this awful "doctor" and the terrifying experiments he conducted. I also felt that for a book with the word "twins" in the title, the story was much more about all of the other main characters, Bluma and Perle were barely even in the story. Their role was important, especially because it was the only way to fully connect the two stories, but it certainly wasn't the main story of this novel.

As far as the writing style, I think it is fairly easy to follow and broken into several short-medium length chapters. Despite alternating perspectives frequently, the storylines are well developed and easy to navigate between. My only problem with the writing style was the excessive use of character thoughts in italics. I just felt that there were other ways to include these thoughts without having to use this writing pattern which is used several times in each chapter, sometimes for multiple paragraphs.

Overall, this book is relatively well written, easy to follow and the fact that it is the third in the series does not affect it being read as a standalone, which is great. It is not my favourite WWII historical fiction, but there were also a lot of elements that I felt were fairly well done so it is a 4 star for me and one I would likely recommend. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and voluntarily review this novel!

This is the 3rd and final installment of the Auschwitz Twins. I didn't get the chance to read the first two and didn't feel like that was a problem. Characters were introduced to where I felt like I knew them and could follow along. This could have been a stand alone, for sure. While the subject matter was hard to read at times, I did enjoy this one and it was hard to put down. I loved the different POV's and how they all came together at the end. The writing did feel really simple to me, almost reading like junior high level. Overall, I liked it.

I have not read the first two books in the Auschwitz Twins series but I was able to pick up this book and follow the story line well enough. As a fan of historical fiction, this book was just okay for me. The characters weren't lovable and the storyline was just okay.

Thanks, Netgalley for the ARC of this book!

Thank you to the Book Whisperer and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this final installment in a trilogy.This book can be read as a stand alone novel as the characters are very engaging.Perla and Blume are the two little twin girls the evil Dr Mengele picks for his gruesome experiments.The forces of good and evil are very evident in this book.Very thought provoking.Highly recommend!

The third of the trilogy and a good wrap of the story.

We start with the families boarding the trains they were convinced to board. Believing leaving the Warsaw ghetto was a better thing, sadly it was a false hope. At one of the stoppings of the train Herschel makes a deal with a Nazi to let Naomi go. She runs and along her way, she runs into a soldier.

The life of Gisele and Ernst isn't the greatest, but he's trying to make the best of it. However, Gisele is meeting others and falling for Otto. Otto knows Dr Mengele and she's still badly wanting to meet her father. They meet and the outcome doesn't favor in her way. Nothing with her exactly goes as she hoped and planned.

Ernst is still doing his job and still hating it. While he was gone, Mengele hired more help and Ernst focuses more on the twins. Shoshana was allowed to stay with them and is doing what she can to keep them comfortable for the situation they are in.

As it nears the end, Naomi winds up where her daughters are and learns what they've been through and discovers what's coming.

The story ends with everything coming together, intertwining, giving it an acceptable ending.

Thank you The Book Whisperer Publishing for allowing me to read this through NetGalley for my honest review.

Naomi's Search

A frightening and suspenseful ending to a historical WWII series about Dr. Mengele and his horrific experiments on twins in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.

While Naomi searches for her daughters , Ernst, Dr. Mengele's apprentice, is fighting to save them from the evil Dr. Mengele while his marriage is failing and his wife is in danger from an enemy from the past. Can Ernst save anyone, including himself?

This is a stirring story of horror and love and redemption of the heart.

I enjoyed this ending to another great WWII series. You will enjoy this series.

Thanks to Robert Kagan for writing another great book, ending another great series, to The Book Whisperer for publishing it and to NetGalley for providing a copy for me to read and review.

The last in the Auschwitz Twins trilogy, this heartbreaking yet beautiful book is a stunner as are the other two instalments. My heart broke and rejoiced as I gained deeper insight into the lives of Naomi, Herschel, Shosham, Perle, Bluma, Ernst, Gisele and the Angel of Death during WWII in Poland, mostly at Auschwitz. The book is utterly engaging and engrossing, so much so that it was easy to immerse myself and lose track of time.

Naomi and Herschel are forced from the Warsaw Ghetto onto a crammed train cattle car where they experienced unspeakable horrors. Herschel makes a life-changing decision. Their three daughters are at Auschwitz where Dr. Mengele and his team perform ghastly experiments on children, especially twins. Unfortunately, eight-year-old Perle and Bluma are twins. Their older sister Shosham does all she can to protect them but they are now haunted by constant fear, humiliation and pervasive death. Ernst works with Dr. Mengele and as a doctor is horrified at what he sees but continues anyway as he feels he has no choice. His beautiful wife Gisele (with whom many men are besotted) believes she is Dr. Mengele's daughter which adds another intriguing layer to the story. Dr. Mengele's character and personality are revealed through his rationalizations and barbarity. Difficult to read but important information to learn about. My favourite storyline is that of the sisters and their remarkable journey.

Historical Fiction readers, this trilogy is more than reading...it is an experience and would be a shame to miss. Do read the notes by author Roberta Kagan to discover her inspiration. Not only is it obvious she has done her research but she writes with a special giftedness. I absolutely loved this book and am sad to see the series end.

My sincere thank you to The Book Whisperer and NetGalley for the privilege of reading this harrowing and lovely book.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
While I have not read the previous 2 books in the series, I feel like there was enough information in this book for most of it to make sense. Like any books about the Holocaust, this one is depressing for the most part. There were a couple different story lines going on but to me it seemed mostly unrealistic to the point that it took a lot away from the overall story. Something about the writing style bother me but I couldn't pinpoint what. The ending seemed rushed and abrupt.
Overall, this book was pretty good. Just not as realistic as I expected.

Thank you to Netgally, the publishers, and Roberta Kagan

When I requested this book I was unaware that it was apart of a series, one that requires you to read the previous books for this one to make sense. I am unable to read all the previous books along with this one before the publish date. Therefore, I will rate this a fair 3/5 stars and will adjust the rating and review when I am able to read all the books in the series along with this one.

I am sorry for any issues caused by this and I will be more careful in the future.

The Auschwitz Twins by Roberta Kagen was the final installment in The Auschwitz Twins series. I had not had the opportunity to read the first two books in this series before reading The Auschwitz Twins but I had no problem following the plot or the characters in this final book. The Auschwitz Twins is a very interesting WWII book. One of my favorite genres is historical fiction and I’ve read a “few” books by various authors. This book leads the reader into the dark world of Dr. Mengele and his horrifying “experiments” on twins.

The book begins with a family being taken by the Nazi’s . Mom and Dad are on a train heading towards their death. They have no idea where their three daughters are twins, Perle and Blume, and their older sister Shoshana. Dad bribes a guard to get Mama off the train and she runs into the woods. (The story of the mother and her escape is a big part of the story). The girls are taken to Auschwitz and put under the care of Dr. Mengele and his kind assistant Ernst.

The characters all become intertwined into a very interesting story of love, hate, faith, and betrayal

Quick and interesting read!!!
Thank you NetGalley and Book Whisperer for the opportunity to read this book.

The Auschwitz Twins by Roberta Kagen was the final installment in The Auschwitz Twins series. I had not had the opportunity to read the first two books in this series before reading The Auschwitz Twins but I had no problem following the plot or the characters in this final book. I felt that it could be read as a stand-alone novel. The Auschwitz Twins was a fast paced book that I had difficulty pulling myself away from once I started reading it. I liked that Roberta Kagan focused more on the characters in this book than the day to day atrocities that occurred in the camps. Some parts were hard to read though. My emotions were working on overdrive as I read The Auschwitz Twins. I cried, got angry, cringed, held my breathe, hoped, and even smiled.

The Auschwitz Twins took place in Poland in 1942. Naomi and Herschel and their twin eight year old daughters Bluma and Perle were waiting to board a train. As they approached the train where masses of Jewish men, women and children were waiting, Bluma and Perle spotted their estranged older sister Shoshana. When the twins ran to hug Shoshana they got separated from their parents Herschel and Naomi. Shoshana had defied her father by refusing to meet the man her father had chosen to be her husband. In those times it was common for marriages to be arranged. With this act of defiance, Shoshana was ousted from her home and her father had sat shiva for her. As Naomi and Herschel got closer to being forced to board the train, Naomi looked frantically for her daughters. They were nowhere to be seen. Bluma and Perle were so happy to have found their older sister that they ran to her and got separated from their mother and father. They had missed her so much. As Naomi and Herschel were pushed onto the overcrowded cattle cars, Bluma, Perle, Shoshana and a friend of Shoshana’s were told to get in the back of a truck. No one knew where the train was taking them or where the truck would take the girls. Naomi was beside herself that she was on the train without her daughters. Would she live to be able to find her children? What would her fate be?

Shoshana, Bluma and Perle ended up in Auschwitz. The notorious and sadistic monster, Dr. Mengele, snatched the twins up and deposited them in the twin’s ward. Mengele had a twisted obsession with twin children and enjoyed performing experiments on them just because he could. Shoshana was permitted to stay with her sisters so she could look after them. Dr. Ernst Neider was Mengele’s assistant. Although he worked for Mengele, Ernst found the horrific things Mengele did to the children, Gypsies and those with deformities sadistic and cruel. It turned Ernst’s stomach to watch Mengele torture and hurt the children. Ernst Neider became a doctor to help people and cure them of disease not purposely kill and hurt them. Ernst had recently gotten married to a beautiful young woman named Gisele. He was head over heels in love with her. Ernst considered himself to be the luckiest man to have such a beautiful wife. Some things were too good to be true, though. Ernst would learn that the hard way. Would Ernst’s kind and caring ways be enough to save Bluma, Perle and Shoshana from Mengele’s evil acts? What would happen to them under the clutches of Mengele?

The Auschwitz Twins by Roberta Kagen was a very engaging yet horrifying novel. It explored the concepts of conflict, redemption, family, love, heartbreak, loyalty, friendship, survival and courage. Roberta Kagen chose to insert some characters into The Auschwitz Twins that actually stood up against Hitler and the Nazi party and refused to be part of what they were doing. I appreciated that she showed that good did exist in some. Reading about Mengele and his experiments on those poor helpless children broke my heart. Those were the sections in The Auschwitz Twins I had the hardest time reading. Some of it was pretty graphic and very disturbing. We must never forget that these things actually happened so they can never be repeated again. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to The Book Whisperer and Roberta Kagan for allowing me to read the ARC of The Auschwitz Twins through Netgalley in exchange for honest review. Publication is set for September 4, 2022.

This book was wonderful, but so hard to read. The torture that children received at the hands of Mengele is truly repulsive and disturbing. The story is wonderful and heroine.

Thank you to Netgalley and Roberta Kagan for allowing me to review this book.
This is book three of three in a series and while I am just tuning in at the end it did not take away from my enjoyment of this book.
Mengele and his infamous experiments are a well known horror of the Holocaust. This series gives faces and names to the victims and participants of those experiments.
This story packs a lot of punches. I definitely need to go and read it’s two predecessors to get more of this story. I really appreciate that this author doesn’t shy away from the hard and the sad and the tough parts of this time period, showing the brutality but also keeping the humanity, a delicate balance that is perfectly maintained.

The Auschwitz Twins by Roberta Kagan

This is Roberta Kagans Third and final book in her latest serious “Auschwitz Twins”.

Book three starts in 1942 in Poland right where the second book ended with Naomi and Herschel in the overcrowded cattle train going to an unknown destination meanwhile their twins, Perle and Blume, and Shoshana, their oldest daughter, have been taken to Auschwitz to the private experiment rooms of Dr Josef Mengele where they meet kind Dr Ernst Neider. The book ends in 1979 Tel Aviv Israel.

I enjoyed this book very much. I liked how the characters we have come to know from books 1 and 2 come together. Roberta wrote about some very sensitive subjects in this book with great compassion and empathy.

I especially loved the ending; I do not want to give anything away to future readers but the ending gave me a feeling of satisfaction and the feeling that vengeance has been done.

I would like to thank Net Galley and The Book Whisperer for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review