Born Survivors
of Wendy Holden (Goodreads Author)
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The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children tooâa remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officerâs Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have leftâtheir lives, and those of their unborn babies. Having concealed their condition from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, they are forced to work and almost starved to death, living in daily fear of their pregnancies being detected by the SS. In April 1945, as the Allies close in, the inmates are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish seventeen-day train journey. On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausenâs liberation from the Nazis by American soldiers, renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothersâ unbelievableâyet ultimately successfulâfight for survival.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 385 pages
- Publisher Harper
- Publication Date May 5th 2015
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780062370259
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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