I ended up going to Krakow, Poland for Easter weekend, and while I was debating whether visiting Auschwitz would be crass or an important educational moment, I decided it might not be bad to read a book related to the Holocaust in preparation for the trip. I didn’t actually finish this until after my visit to Auschwitz but I appreciated having a personal story to attach to the victims since at some point the brain stops processing the scale of large numbers. The book follows […]
‘Good morning pretty lady, are you pregnant?’
So the last two books I read were disappointing for different reasons but, despite its bleak subject matter, Born Survivors lifted me out of my slump. Born Survivors was a well written, sad but uplifting, story about three women who beat the odds during during the Holocaust. Priska, Rachel, and Anka were pregnant Jewish women who were sent to Auschwitz near the tail end of World War II. Their stories were amazing, they were so full of hope despite their circumstances and overall this is a story about survival […]