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Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope, Wendy Holden
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- Summary
- Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey--first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave-labor camp, where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and, finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish seventeen-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Biographer Wendy Holden details the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, which helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three "miracle babies" meet for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the American liberation. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they come to consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Holden brings all three stories together for the first time, to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and love amid inconceivable cruelty
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 385 pages
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group"--Title-page verso
- Contents
-
- Priska
- Rachel
- Anka
- Auschwitz II-Birkenau
- Freiberg
- The train
- Mauthausen
- Liberation
- Home
- Reunion
- Roll call
- Isbn
- 9780062370259
- Label
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Title
- Born survivors
- Title remainder
- three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Statement of responsibility
- Wendy Holden
- Subject
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- trueWorld War II
- trueHolocaust survivors
- trueConcentration camps
- Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Biography
- trueSurvival
- Biographies
- trueHistory Writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II
- trueChildren of Holocaust survivors
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography
- trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
- truePrisoners of war
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
- trueJewish women
- truePregnant women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey--first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave-labor camp, where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and, finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish seventeen-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Biographer Wendy Holden details the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, which helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three "miracle babies" meet for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the American liberation. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they come to consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Holden brings all three stories together for the first time, to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and love amid inconceivable cruelty
- Summary
- Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10414775
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holden, Wendy
- Dewey number
- 940.53180922
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish women in the Holocaust
- Prisoners of war
- World War, 1939-1945
- Children of Holocaust survivors
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Label
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope, Wendy Holden
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group"--Title-page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-375)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Priska -- Rachel -- Anka -- Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- Freiberg -- The train -- Mauthausen -- Liberation -- Home -- Reunion -- Roll call
- Control code
- ocn891610326
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 385 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062370259
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891610326
- Label
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope, Wendy Holden
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group"--Title-page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-375)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Priska -- Rachel -- Anka -- Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- Freiberg -- The train -- Mauthausen -- Liberation -- Home -- Reunion -- Roll call
- Control code
- ocn891610326
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 385 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062370259
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891610326
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Biographies
- trueChildren of Holocaust survivors
- trueConcentration camps
- trueHistory Writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II
- trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
- trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
- trueHolocaust survivors
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography
- trueJewish women
- Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Biography
- truePregnant women
- truePrisoners of war
- trueSurvival
- trueWorld War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBiographies
- trueBiography
- trueHistory Writing
- trueHistory writing
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