Cilka's Journey
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Nominated in Best Fiction at the Audie Awards 2020.
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience.
Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.
Cilka was only sixteen-years-old when she was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, noticed her long beautiful hair, and forced her separation from the other women prisoners.
Cilka did what she had to in order to survive Auschwitz. And yet after Russian soldiers liberated Auschwitz in 1945, Cilka was charged as a collaborator and sentenced to serve a fifteen-year sentence for 'sleeping with the enemy'. Once again, she found herself on a brutal train journey, crammed into a carriage with many desperate women and children. This time, her destination was Siberia. She was by then only eighteen-years-old.
So began a new life of horror and brutality in a prison camp close to the Arctic Circle. But in this unimaginable darkness, this terror beyond terror, Cilka found endless resources within herself, her profound humanity and determination helping her to survive against all odds.
Cilka's Journey is a remarkable novel of courage and resilience, based upon the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein. Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters. Available to pre-order now.
'She was the bravest person I ever met'
Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Customer Reviews
Amazing
I have now read this book 5 times and every time I read it I still feel the same as I did the first time I read it. It is such a moving and courageous story that makes me cry every time. The writer has detailed into the story of Cilka so in depth and the emotions that you feel throughout the story make it still my favourite book. Please take the time to read this for yourself!
Crappy narrator
Good story. Boring monotonous narrator.
Cilka’s story
Sad , but enjoyable read