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Cilka's Journey / The Librarian of Auschwitz / The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Cilka's Journey [Hardcover], The Librarian of Auschwitz, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 3 Books Collection
Cilka's Journey [Hardcover]:
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.
The Librarian of
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees.
The Tattooist of
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
Cilka's Journey [Hardcover], The Librarian of Auschwitz, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 3 Books Collection
Cilka's Journey [Hardcover]:
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.
The Librarian of
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees.
The Tattooist of
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
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Published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Heather Morris
31 books9,345 followersI am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an academy award winning Screenwriter in the U.S. In 2003, I was introduced to an elderly gentleman "who might just have a story worth telling". The day I met Lale Sokolov changed my life, as our friendship grew and he embarked on a journey of self scrutiny, entrusting the inner most details of his life during the Holocaust. I originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into my debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
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April 25, 2020
I had to pick up Cilka’s Story after reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Whilst I knew of Auschwitz, (though the shock is always like I’m reading for the first time) I knew nothing of the Russian Labour Camps under Stalin. For Cilka and many others who endured both is beyond comprehension.
August 25, 2020
Unbelievable story of survival. What this poor girl had to endure was criminal.
January 24, 2023
After reading the Tattooist of Auschwitz, I desperately wanted to know what happened to Cilka. This was such a great, but heavy story. Would recommend.
April 23, 2022
Very sad, but showing enormous endurance.
July 8, 2025
I went into The Tattooist of Auschwitz expecting heartbreak and yes, it gave me that in full but what I didn’t expect was the hope. The story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew forced to tattoo numbers on his fellow prisoners, is one of unimaginable horror, but also of defiance, resilience, and impossible love.
Cilka’s Journey is heavier, grittier, and somehow even more emotionally devastating than The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Following Cilka, a side character from Lale’s story, we witness a young woman who survives Auschwitz, only to be sentenced to a Soviet labor camp for “collaborating” with the enemy. As if surviving one horror wasn’t enough.
The Librarian of Auschwitz gutted me in the most important way. Based on the real life of Dita Kraus, a teenage girl imprisoned in Auschwitz, the book follows her as she’s entrusted with a dangerous task: hiding and protecting a tiny, forbidden library inside the family camp. Eight tattered books—each one sacred, illegal, and full of hope. And somehow, this 14-year-old girl becomes their guardian.
Cilka’s Journey is heavier, grittier, and somehow even more emotionally devastating than The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Following Cilka, a side character from Lale’s story, we witness a young woman who survives Auschwitz, only to be sentenced to a Soviet labor camp for “collaborating” with the enemy. As if surviving one horror wasn’t enough.
The Librarian of Auschwitz gutted me in the most important way. Based on the real life of Dita Kraus, a teenage girl imprisoned in Auschwitz, the book follows her as she’s entrusted with a dangerous task: hiding and protecting a tiny, forbidden library inside the family camp. Eight tattered books—each one sacred, illegal, and full of hope. And somehow, this 14-year-old girl becomes their guardian.
June 9, 2021
love story
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