Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was
the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring
true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and
whose fate altered the course of history…Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive.
Mala,
inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle
train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the SS, she uses
her position to save as many lives as she can, smuggling scraps of bread
to those desperate with hunger.
Edward, inmate 531, is a
camp veteran and a political prisoner. Though he looks like everyone
else, with a shaved head and striped uniform, he’s a fighter in the
underground Resistance. And he has an escape plan.
They are
locked up for no other sin than simply existing. But when they meet, the
dark shadow of Auschwitz is lit by a glimmer of hope. Edward makes Mala
believe in the impossible. That despite being surrounded by electric
wire, machine guns topping endless watchtowers and searchlights roaming
the ground, they will leave this death camp.
A promise is
made––they will escape together or they will die together. What follows
is one of the greatest love stories in history
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About The Author
llie Midwood is a USA Today
bestselling and award-winning historical fiction author. She owes her
interest in the history of the Second World War to her grandfather,
Junior Sergeant in the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the First Belorussian
Front, who began telling her about his experiences on the frontline when
she was a young girl. Growing up, her interest in history only deepened
and transformed from reading about the war to writing about it. After
obtaining her BA in Linguistics, Ellie decided to make writing her
full-time career and began working on her first full-length historical
novel, "The Girl from Berlin." Ellie is continuously enriching her
library with new research material and feeds her passion for WWII and
Holocaust history by collecting rare memorabilia and documents.
In
her free time, Ellie is a health-obsessed yoga enthusiast, neat freak,
adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot, philosopher, a proud
Jew, and a doggie mama. Ellie lives in New York with her fiancé and
their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.
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My Review
Once I began this book, I could not put it down, and the pages flew.
Unfortunately, this is based on truth, and I kept thinking, how could
they get away with what they did. Why did the world allow it? Then I
remembered the part where they put on the show for the Red Cross. What a
blight on history, I don’t know how the perpetrators lived with
themselves?
This book also follows a young woman and a young man,
they have big hearts under horrendous conditions, and with their
selflessness end up saving lives. I found myself walking in the shoes of
these people condemned to Hades in the form of Auschwitz-Birkenau and
witnessing the atrocious happenings.
This is my first book by Ellie Midwood, and it won’t be my last, be sure to read the author’s notes at the end!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Bookouture, and was not required to give a positive review
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