Born Survivors - Hardcover
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Sconosciute l'una all'altra ma accomunate dallo stesso destino, tre donne sono scampate alla morte e alla follia di Mengele ad Auschwitz riuscendo miracolosamente a nascondere di essere incinte. Costrette ai lavori forzati in una fabbrica di armi vicino a Dresda, e poi stipate con altre migliaia di vittime sul treno della morte diretto a Mauthausen, riescono a difendere caparbiamente la vita che portano in grembo. Una di loro dà alla luce una femmina appena prima del viaggio, un'altra un maschietto sul treno in condizioni disumane, e la terza varcando il cancello del campo. Luogo di nascita Mauthausen, riportano i certificati di nascita dei tre neonati. Tramontate le tenebre della guerra, per oltre sessant'anni ognuno dei tre bambini, ormai cresciuti, crede di essere l'unico uscito vivo dall'inferno in quelle condizioni. Ma le sorprese nella loro incredibile storia non sono ancora finite.
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“An astonishing and deeply moving work.”—Booklist (starred review)
“An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.”—Kirkus Reviews
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through the concentration camp’s infamous gates with a secret. Separated from their husbands and strangers to one another, they are pregnant and scared. After losing so many other loved ones to the Nazis, these women are determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.
Born Survivors follows them as, against all the odds, they give birth to their babies and go on to build new lives with their children after World War II. Theirs are stories of hardships and miracles as they narrowly escape the clutches of Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz; conceal their condition after they are sent to a Nazi slave-labor camp, where they are half-starved and almost worked to death; and as the Allies close in, survive a seventeen-day train journey to Mauthausen in Austria. By the time they arrive, all three babies have been born—but because the camp has run out of Zyklon B, their lives and those of their mothers are saved. Sixty-five years later, the three “miracle babies” share a remarkable, inspirational story of three mothers who defied death at the hands of the Nazis to give their children life.About the Author
Wendy Holden was a journalist for eighteen years, including a decade at the Daily Telegraph. She is the author and coauthor of more than thirty books, among them several internationally acclaimed wartime biographies, plus the New York Times bestsellers A Lotus Grows in the Mud (with Goldie Hawn) and Lady Blue Eyes (with Frank Sinatra's widow, Barbara). She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and two dogs, and divides her time between the UK and the US.
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