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Lullabies From Auschwitz: A Historical Family Saga Based on a True Story of Holocaust Survivors
The beautiful journey of a girl through her family’s survival at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1954. In Vera Berg’s home, you do not ask questions. You don’t ask about the hidden family photographs full of strangers. Or why a piece of bread can break your sister’s heart. Because, for Vera and her family, life is split. There is everything that happened years ago, before it all began, and everything now, after it all ended. And for Vera, who is caught in the middle between before and after, life is full of secret drawers and unanswered questions.
Until one night, after a brutal fight with her mother ends in tears, her sister Annika comes to tell her a bedtime story. One she’d never heard before, about a woman who lived in a different country, with a different family.
A woman with her mother’s name.
Every night, Annika tells Vera another story. And every day, Vera sees just how life before shaped those who lived after. And when Annika leaves for America, it’s their mother who takes up Vera’s stories, of the two years they spent in the Lager—the Camp—until there are no more lullabies from Auschwitz.
Inspired by her family’s true story of survival and rebirth, Edith Zak’s moving and powerful biographical saga weaves love, want, hope, and secrets that span generations, perfect for readers of Roberta Kagan and Anna Stuart.
1954. In Vera Berg’s home, you do not ask questions. You don’t ask about the hidden family photographs full of strangers. Or why a piece of bread can break your sister’s heart. Because, for Vera and her family, life is split. There is everything that happened years ago, before it all began, and everything now, after it all ended. And for Vera, who is caught in the middle between before and after, life is full of secret drawers and unanswered questions.
Until one night, after a brutal fight with her mother ends in tears, her sister Annika comes to tell her a bedtime story. One she’d never heard before, about a woman who lived in a different country, with a different family.
A woman with her mother’s name.
Every night, Annika tells Vera another story. And every day, Vera sees just how life before shaped those who lived after. And when Annika leaves for America, it’s their mother who takes up Vera’s stories, of the two years they spent in the Lager—the Camp—until there are no more lullabies from Auschwitz.
Inspired by her family’s true story of survival and rebirth, Edith Zak’s moving and powerful biographical saga weaves love, want, hope, and secrets that span generations, perfect for readers of Roberta Kagan and Anna Stuart.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2025
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