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Title: Born Survivors Pdf Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s 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 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, as the Allies close in, Priska gives birth. She and her baby, along with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish seventeen-day train journey. Rachel gives birth on the train, and Anka at the camp gates. All believe they will die, but 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.
On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausen’s liberation from the Nazis by American soldiers, renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothers’ unbelievable—yet ultimately successful—fight for survival.
Hope is eternal Wendy managed to write a story of three young women and their lives before and through the Holocaust, when, as prisoners, while pregnant. It was not an easy task from Wendy to follow the route from the homeland or ghetto or a different concentration camp for each of these women, yet she went and visited each of these places -- and then she met with the children, or as she calls them, babies. And.. all that without a hint of pathos or a false note. I know, because I am one of the "babies" and am infinitely grateful to Wendy for telling this story of our mothers in her compassionate and realistic voice.Haunting Truths We Must Never Forget Staggering facts: In six years, the Nazis had killed approximately two thirds of the nine-and-a-half million Jews living in Europe, as well as millions of non-Jews. Only 300,000 of Poland's 3.3 million Jews had survived WWII. The United States eventually accepted some 400,000 refugees but denied many more access to a new life here. Unwelcome anywhere else in the world, many Polish Jews had little alternative but to return to what was by then a Soviet puppet state.With survival admittedly just a matter of luck, this entirely densely written work of non-fiction, tackled perfectly by Author Wendy Holden, takes us from the beautiful, healthy, grateful, wealthy lives of three Jewish women and their husbands and into their fearful, imprisoned, tortured, starved, sickened, unfathomable life of horrors endured in various concentration camps, German factories, and slave labor camps over Europe under Nazi rule while pregnant and miraculously postbirth. This is an exhausting story of survival, only possible due to people of compassion, mothers who fought for their lives and the lives of their babies, and thankfully American allied intervention and liberation in May 1945, "those tanks with the white stars." The rebuilding of lives where towns and sometimes entire families were destroyed is unimaginably heartbreaking. The reunions between the grown children and their aged liberators are heartbreaking and inspirational. The visiting of Mauthausen where three babies were secretly born and now are adult orphans walking arm and arm as forever 'siblings of the heart' is so incredibly empowering -- Mark, Eva and Hana. I always feel a duty to read Holocaust books; I'm relieved I have finished this one. It's amazing to hear these stories of courageous freedoms. I'm just so fiercely angry they ever had to be written at all.Very difficult to get through, but very important to read... I am, all-at-once, left aghast, disgusted, and awestruck: aghast because these poor, innocent people were living ordinary lives, when suddenly their world was turned completely upside down. I am disgusted because the Nazis were absolutely barbaric and utterly compassionless, and it hits me so hard every time I read a novel about this oh-so-tragic time in history. And I am completely awestruck that these three women and their unborn babies survived these unspeakable crimes, and were able to persevere.This was hands-down, the most graphic book about the Holocaust I have ever read. It is a side of this abhorrent event in history that is rarely delved into: the trek of pregnant Jewish women and children, and how they were treated by the Nazis. It is something so shameful and unimaginable, that it is no wonder few authors discuss it. Kudos to the author and grandchildren of these brave women for bringing it to light.I struggled getting through this story not only because of the sheer heft of this topic, but also because of the graphic nature of this particular book. I completely understand the reality and necessity of telling the story; but it is so difficult for me to digest that anyone can be so utterly soulless as to inflict this kind of suffering on another human being.I did often seem to lose track of who was whom, as well as the timing of certain events portrayed in this book. At times, I felt as though there was a bit of an organizational issue. However, I still feel as though this is an important read, and one that I will likely never forget.
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