Covid-19 struck Australia just as I was putting the finishing touches to this book, The Freedom Circus. It was surreal recalling how my grandmother-in-law survived the Holocaust on maggot filled porridge, while watching Australians fighting over toilet paper.
Fear and desperation can drive humans to behave in ways we never imagined possible, and to make decisions otherwise unthinkable.
Mindla and Kubush Horowitz were forced to make many such decisions during World War 2.
They survived the Holocaust and were spared the horrific Warsaw ghetto by performing for the Nazis.
Kubush was a clown with the famous Circus Staniewski in Poland. While the Nazis laughed, they lived.
Their extraordinary story of survival has been 80 years in the making, and arguably, it is more relevant today than ever. Themes of resilience, courage, strength and survival which can teach us all invaluable life lessons.
Mindla and Kubush had an incomparable love, a steely survival instinct, and a zest for life that comes from staring death in the face many times. It was a privilege to write The Freedom Circus and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it.
If you loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Happiest Man on Earth, you will most certainly be captivated by The Freedom Circus.
The Freedom Circus

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