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Lily's Promise
How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
2021
EN
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The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, with a foreword by King Charles III, as Prince of Wales.The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. This updated edition includes Lily being awarded an MBE, reaching her hundredth birthday, and the discovery of a long-lost book belonging to her murdered brother – the only tangible link to him that survived the Holocaust.When Holocaust su...
Lily's Promise
How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
- Narrated by
- Anna CordellDov FormanLily Ebert
Unabridged
8 hours 59 min
2021
EN
With a foreword written and read by HRH The Prince of Wales, Patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down th...
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Always Remember Your Name
‘Heartbreaking and utterly uplifting’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Narrated by
- Helen Lloyd
Unabridged
4 hours 10 min
2022
EN
A powerful and intensely moving true-life account from two sisters who were among the very few children to survive Auschwitz.On 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and the sisters were among only 70 child survivors.Throughout their...
Last Stop Auschwitz
The inspiring true story of a Jewish holocaust survivor, written from inside the camp
- Narrated by
- Boris Hiestand
- Translated by
- David Colmer
Unabridged
7 hours 15 min
2020
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.**'How much I learned from this brave man... The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyWith an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas**_______________Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour cam...
Always Remember Your Name
‘Heartbreaking and utterly uplifting’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2022
EN
'These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this book, they break the silence and give us the immeasurable gift of their story.' Gwen Strauss, author of The NineOn 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated...
My Name Is Selma
The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
- Translated by
- Alice Tetley-PaulAnna Asbury
2020
EN
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'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded the small details that made up our lives, the sheer luck that saved some of us and the atrocities that led to the deaths of so many, as a tribute to all those who suffered and died...'_______________Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War Two began. Unti...
Last Stop Auschwitz
The inspiring true story of a Jewish holocaust survivor, written from inside the camp
- Translated by
- David Colmer
2020
EN
Accessible
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyAfterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas_______________Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp ...
The Fighter of Auschwitz
The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive
2023
EN
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.'In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sanders, was sent to Auschwitz. His wife and children were put to death while he was sent 'to the left' with the others who were fit enough for labour. Recognised by an SS officer, he was earmarked for a 'privileged' po...
2022
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'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVERIn 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany under the nose of the Gestapo.The - mostly Jewish - children who escaped found a safe haven in Anna's new school, a rundown manor house in southern England, until the outbreak of war in 1939 raised terri...
The Power of Women
A doctor's journey of hope and healing
2021
EN
'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can triumph in the worst possible circumstances.'Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist, Dr Mukwege has dedicated his life to caring for victims of sexual violence. Over the past two decades living and working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he has stood up to soldiers and warlords, survived massacres and multi...
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The Extraordinary True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive in WW2
2021
EN
The breathtakingly moving true story of the women who created a fashion workshop within one of WWII's most notorious death camps - and sewed to survive the Holocaust.'Such a powerful book, so much pain, strong ladies, so much detail, I have read many books on Auschwitz but this one will stay with me for a long time' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I couldn't put it down. I spent time feeling angry and I cried, while reading it, but I also laughed on ...
The Twins of Auschwitz
The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell
2020
EN
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, while Eva and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man who became known as the Angel of Death: Dr. Josef Mengele. They were 10 years old.While twins ...











