Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris Firstly I would like to start by clarifying the content used to write this novel, this is a "fictional" story based on some information relayed to the author by Lale Sokolov (The Tatooist of Auschwitz). Heather Morris is clear on this subject at the end of the novel when she relays where she gained her research, what contributed to it's creation and what she hopes a reader will get from this story. This is the story of Cilka Klein, a jewish prisoner of Auschwitz who at the age of 16 is wrenched from her family and placed in the women's camp Birkenau, to enable herself and her sister Magda to survive she finds herself not only put in front of Menghele but also ends up in Hut 25, this is where the sick and dying go. Cilka manages to survive however, carries a large amount of survivors guilt so when she is brought in front of the Russian's who have free'd her she is devastated to find freedom is to evade her. C...
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