Cilka's journey / Heather Morris.
By: Morris, Heather
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020Description: 343 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN: 9781250265692 Report number: BR-Fall 20Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction | Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- FictionGenre/Form: History.Summary: From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz (LP-5386) comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her, and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz (LP-5386) comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her, and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp.