Born Survivors: Three Younger Moms and Their Extraordinary Story of Braveness, Defiance, and Hope

The Nazis murdered their husbands however focus camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka wouldn’t let evil take their unborn youngsters too—a outstanding true story that can enchantment to readers of The Misplaced and The Nazi Officer’s Spouse, Born Survivors celebrates three moms who defied demise to present their youngsters life.

Jap Europe, 1944: Three ladies consider they’re pregnant, however are torn from their husbands earlier than they are often sure. Rachel is shipped to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband journey there collectively, however are instantly separated. Additionally at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in useless to be reunited along with her husband. With the remainder of their households gassed, these younger wives are decided to carry on to all they’ve left—their lives, and people of their unborn infants. Having hid their situation from notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele, they’re pressured to work and virtually starved to demise, dwelling in day by day concern of their pregnancies being detected by the SS.

In April 1945, because the Allies shut in, Priska offers start. She and her child, together with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are despatched to Mauthausen focus camp on a hellish seventeen-day prepare journey. Rachel offers start on the prepare, and Anka on the camp gates. All consider they may die, however then a miracle happens. The fuel chamber runs out of Zyklon-B, and because the Allied troops close to, the SS flee. In opposition to all odds, the three moms and their newborns survive their treacherous journey to freedom.

On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausen’s liberation from the Nazis by American troopers, famend biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three youngsters united by their moms’ unbelievable—but in the end profitable—battle for survival.