Vol. 74 No. 2 (2026): NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
Book Review

Book Review: Always Remember Your Name

I. M. Nick
American Name Society

Published 2026-05-26

Abstract

Always Remember Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz. By Andrea Bucci and Liliana Bucci. London: Manilla Press. 2019. Pp. 161 (Hardback). $16.00. ISBN: 978-786-58121-1.

References

  1. Andreanelli. Sergio. 2021. “Risiera di San Sabba.” Death Camps Then and Now. Edited by Winston Ramsey, 266–271. Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Books.
  2. Bucci, Andra, and Liliana Bucci. 2019. Noi, Bambine ad Auschwitz: La Nostra Storia di Sopravvissute alla Shoah. [Always Remember Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz]. Milan: Mondadori.
  3. Genest, Andrea. 2015. Damit die Welt es erfährt … Illegale Dokumente polnischer Häftlinge aus dem Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück . Berlin: Metropol.
  4. Heller, Mathilda. 2025, March 12. “György Kun, Hungarian Survivor of Dr. Mengele’s Twin Experiments in Auschwitz Dies at 93.” Jerusalem Times. Accessed January 10, 20226. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-845705
  5. Hildebrandt, Sabine. 2017. The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science During the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn.
  6. Himes, Mavis. 2016. The Power of Names: Uncovering the Mystery of What We Are Called. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
  7. Klein, Shira. 2018. Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  8. Kor, Eva Mozes, and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. 2011. Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz. Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood Press.
  9. Lagnado, Lucette Matalon, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. 1992. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York: Random House.
  10. Lebendiges Museum Online (LEMO). “Josef Mengele 1911–1979.” https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/josef-mengele
  11. Lifton, Robert Jay. 1986. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books.
  12. Marrone, Titti. 2024. The Children of Lingfield House. London: Bonnier Books.
  13. Marwell, David. 2021. Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death. New York: W.W. Norton.
  14. Matalon Lagnado, Lucette, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. 1991. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
  15. Meyer, Alwin. 2022. Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
  16. Nick, I. M. 2019. Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  17. Nyiszli, Mikłos. 2011. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye-Witness Account. New York: Penguin.
  18. Poprzeczny, Jospeh. 2004. Hitler’s Man in the East: Odilo Globocnik. London: McFarland and Company, Inc.
  19. Reill, Dominique Kirchner. 2020. The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire. London: Harvard University Press.
  20. Reitzenstein, Julien. 2014. Himmlers Forsher: Wehrwissenschaft und Medizinverbrechen im ‚Ahnenerbe‘ der SS. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag.
  21. San Sabba Rice Mill National Monument and Museum. Accessed August 30, 2023. https://risierasansabba.it/san-sabba-rice-mill-national-monument-and-museum/
  22. Schwaberg, Günther. 2016. Der SS-Arzt und die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm. Göttingen: Steidl
  23. Seidelman, William. 1988. “Mengele Medicus: Medicine’s Nazi Heritage.“ The Milbank Quarterly 66, no. 2: 221–239.
  24. Spitz, Vivien. 2005. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications.
  25. Stessel, Zahava. 1995. Wine and Thorns In Tokay Valley: Jewish Life in Hungary. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
  26. Villani, Cinzia. 2005. “The Persecution of Jews in Two Regions of German-Occupied Northern Italy, 1943–945: Operations Zone Alpenland and Operations Zone Adriatische Küstenland.” Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule: 1922–1945. Edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman., 243–264. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  27. Weiss, Sheila Faith. 2012. “The Loyal Genetic Doctor, Otmar Frieherr von Verschuer, and the Institut für Erbbiologie und Rassenhygiene: Origins, Controversy, and Racial Political Practice.” Central European History 45, no. 4: 631–668.
  28. Wetzel, Juliane. 2015. “Italien.” Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslage. Edited by Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel, 292–312. München: C.H. Beck.
  29. Zimmerman, Joshua, ed. 2005. Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule 1922–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.