Riley Schweitzer’s Reviews > Mischling > Status Update

The book mentions how the girls do not pray. Even though, the twins have no religious knowledge, they are sent to Auschwitz and targeted by Dr. Josef Mengele solely because of their ethnic Jewish ancestry and their status as identical twins. To the Nazi regime, being Jewish was strictly a matter of race and genetics, not religious observance.

The girls meet the other girls, while getting a break down of where they are.
Blokowa-female block supervisor, often associated with female prisoner functionaries in Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz
They learn that being there keeps their families safe.

The doctor calls them Mischling (mixed breed) because of their yellow hair.

The girls arrive at a “mysterious place”. There mother is now talking to a doctor and tells them about the girls- will be 13 in December, good readers, pearl likes music she is quick, practical, studies dance. Stasha has an imagination.

Stasha is shocked at the triplets.
Zayde- the girls grandfather

Zwillinge- German word for twins