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Born Survivors de Wendy Holden

Born Survivors

Autor Wendy Holden
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2016

Imagineați-vă porțile grele de la Auschwitz II-Birkenau în 1944 și trei femei care pășesc în necunoscut, fiecare purtând un secret care le-ar fi putut aduce moartea instantanee: o sarcină ascunsă sub hainele vărgate. Misterul supraviețuirii lor într-un loc destinat exclusiv distrugerii este sâmburele acestei narațiuni cutremurătoare. Priska, Rachel și Anka nu se cunoșteau, dar împărtășeau aceeași determinare feroce de a-și proteja copiii nenăscuți în fața privirii cinice a lui Josef Mengele. Găsim în această carte nu doar o cronică a ororilor, ci o demonstrație de forță a instinctului matern care sfidează logica istorică. Subliniem modul în care Wendy Holden reconstruiește traseul infernal de la munca forțată într-o fabrică de armament până la marșul morții de 17 zile spre Mauthausen. Pe același raft cu The Midwife of Auschwitz, dar cu un accent pe legătura biologică și spirituală indestructibilă dintre mamă și făt în condiții de înfometare extremă, Born Survivors documentează miracolele tehnice și umane — precum epuizarea stocului de gaz Zyklon-B — care au permis acestor „copii ai miracolului” să respire aerul libertății. Această lucrare se poziționează ca punctul culminant al cercetărilor istorice ale autoarei, care a explorat anterior teme similare în The Teacher of Auschwitz. Dacă în lucrările sale de ficțiune istorică, precum The Governess, Holden analizează intimitatea curții regale, aici ea folosește rigoarea jurnalismului de război pentru a expune intimitatea supraviețuirii în cel mai ostil mediu creat vreodată. Rezultatul este un volum documentat impresionant, integrând fotografii și mărturii care transformă o statistică sumbră într-o odă adusă rezilienței.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062370266
ISBN-10: 006237026X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 137 x 294 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

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A eyewitness account of three powerful and strong women in a very dark period of our history. An extraordinary story of their courage, determination, on-going strenght.

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Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă Holocaustul dincolo de cifre, prin prisma unei experiențe umane unice: maternitatea în lagăr. Cititorul va descoperi o poveste incredibilă despre curaj și solidaritate feminină, învățând cum bunătatea unor străini a făcut diferența între viață și moarte. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care caută istorii adevărate despre triumful spiritului uman asupra răului absolut.

Despre autor

Wendy Holden este o scriitoare și jurnalistă britanică de prestigiu, cu o carieră de peste optsprezece ani în presă, inclusiv un deceniu ca corespondent străin și de război pentru Daily Telegraph. Experiența sa pe front și capacitatea de a extrage esența umană din contexte de criză au transformat-o într-una dintre cele mai apreciate autoare de biografii istorice. A publicat peste treizeci de cărți, multe dintre ele devenind bestselleruri internaționale. Specializată în povești de viață remarcabile din perioada celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, Holden reușește să combine rigoarea documentării cu un stil narativ captivant, oferind voce celor care au supraviețuit unora dintre cele mai întunecate momente ale istoriei.

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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.

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“An astonishing and deeply moving work.”—Booklist (starred review)
“An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.”—Kirkus Reviews
Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through the concentration camp’s infamous gates with a secret. Separated from their husbands and strangers to one another, they are pregnant and scared. After losing so many other loved ones to the Nazis, these women are determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.
Born Survivors follows them as, against all the odds, they give birth to their babies and go on to build new lives with their children after World War II. Theirs are stories of hardships and miracles as they narrowly escape the clutches of Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz; conceal their condition after they are sent to a Nazi slave-labor camp, where they are half-starved and almost worked to death; and as the Allies close in, survive a seventeen-day train journey to Mauthausen in Austria. By the time they arrive, all three babies have been born—but because the camp has run out of Zyklon B, their lives and those of their mothers are saved. Sixty-five years later, the three “miracle babies” share a remarkable, inspirational story of three mothers who defied death at the hands of the Nazis to give their children life.

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“It’s no surprise Born Survivors is gathering excellent reviews.” — Chicago Tribune
“Packed with harrowing detail and impressively well-researched…. Intense, powerful, and moving, more than make up for this. Born Survivors is a worthy testament to these three women and the miraculous survival of their children.” — Jewish Chronicle
“With remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research, journalist and author Holden relates the three women’s unforgettable journey from their imprisonment in ghettos to their arrival at Auschwitz, where the feared Dr. Josef Mengele inspected each woman to find out who was pregnant, through their forced labor at munitions factories and the final hellish transport to the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen.… An astonishing and deeply moving work.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Holden deftly weaves together the stories of three women-Priska, Rachel, and Anka-whose children were born in Nazi concentration camps during the last chaotic weeks of World War II. The author’s analysis of each woman’s experiences. . . provide[s] valuable insight into the stark choices faced by Jews during the Holocaust. This book is recommended for a wide audience and all libraries.” — Library Journal
“A work of quite extraordinary investigative dedication…. A moving testament of faith.” — Sir Harold Evans
“Born Survivors, is exceptionally fresh history, a work of prodigious original research, written with zealous empathy.” — Women in the World, New York Times online
“An astonishing and deeply moving work.… With remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Even though it occurred more than 70 years ago, the story’s truth is so chillingly portrayed that it seems as if it could have happened recently.... An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Holden’s triple biography is packed with enough contextual information to qualify as a history lesson but makes its impression as a tale of undeniable courage and astonishing love in the face of incredible cruelty and evil.” — Contra Costa Times
“Holden weaves…written, oral and recorded accounts, plus an array of historical records, into a spellbinding story of perseverance amid systematic abuse.” — American Jewish World

Notă biografică

Wendy Holden was a journalist for eighteen years, including a decade at the Daily Telegraph. She is the author and coauthor of more than thirty books, among them several internationally acclaimed wartime biographies, plus the New York Times bestsellers A Lotus Grows in the Mud (with Goldie Hawn) and Lady Blue Eyes (with Frank Sinatra's widow, Barbara). She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and two dogs, and divides her time between the UK and the US.

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Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were 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 were privately determined to hold on to all they had 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 labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria.

Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Wendy 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 to love amid inconceivable cruelty.