Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

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 S.

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 S 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.

WENDY HOLDEN is an experienced author with two novels and thirty non-fiction books to her credit. She also wrote the bestselling memoir of Uggie, the dog from The Artist. Her ghosted autobiographies mostly chronicle the lives of extraordinary women, including the actress Goldie Hawn; a World War II spy; Frank Sinatra's widow Barbara; and the only woman in the French Foreign Legion. A former journalist for the Daily Telegraph, Wendy covered news events around the world and now lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and two dogs.

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ISBN 13	9780062370259
ISBN 10	0062370251
Title	Born Survivors
Author	Wendy Holden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harper
Year published	2015-05-05
Number of pages	400
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