Born Survivors, Wendy Holden
Born Survivors, Wendy Holden
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Born Survivors
Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

Author: Wendy Holden

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2017


Synopsis

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 left—their 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, Priska gives birth. She and her baby, along with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish train journey. Rachel gives birth on the train; Anka at the camp gates. All believe they will die—then a miracle occurs. The gas chamber runs out of Zyklon-B, and as the Allied troops near, the SS flee. Against all odds, the three mothers and their newborns survive their treacherous journey to freedom.

About Wendy Holden

Wendy Holden is a novelist, nonfiction author, biographer, and ghostwriter, as well as a former journalist for the London Daily Telegraph. She has written more than thirty books, including numerous international bestsellers and the acclaimed novel The Sense of Paper. Wendy divides her time between the U.K. and the U.S.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on February 06, 2017

A beautifully captured testament to the strength and resilience of three young women enslaved by the nazis during the Second World War. Although the three women didn't know each other at the time, they shared a common ground - they were all newly pregnant when they were sent to the now infamous deat......more

Goodreads review by Maria on April 02, 2017

Oriundas de países diferentes (Priska é natural da Eslovénia, onde em 1944 os relatos do que acontecia nos campos ainda tinham pouco crédito, Rachel da Polónia, onde os judeus eram vítimas de um preconceito generalizado, e Anka da República Checa), não deixa de ser uma coincidência terem acabado por......more

Goodreads review by Carrie-Anne on April 30, 2015

This book, simply put.... moved me. I'm not Jewish. As far as I know none of my relatives perished during the Holocaust. In fact, aside from telling the stories contained within these pages, the events affect me not at all. Yet, it does. When I was 16, my parents took me to Germany. Specifically, t......more

Goodreads review by Camie on September 09, 2015

The harrowing true accounts here follow the lives of three amazing women Anka, Priska, and Rachel all of whom, against the odds , survive the horrors of the Holocaust death camps and even more miraculously give birth while imprisoned and manage to keep their babies alive. A tribute to the indefatiga......more

Goodreads review by Dora on July 27, 2015

Embora devore tudo o que tenha a ver com este tema e atualmente existirem tantos livros destes, este foi dos livros que mais me marcou em toda a vida. Excepcionalmente bem escrito, onde todos os factos e relatos são comportados por uma investigação zelosa. Mesmo assim e conhecendo o que se passou, de......more