Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
This is the true story of three women who not only survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, a Freiburg slave-labor camp, and the Mauthausen death camp, but gave birth while there. I have read many books about the Holocaust, but none affected me quite as deeply as this one, because I felt as though I actually knew these three women. Readers get to know each young woman and her family before the war, great detail about their lives and thoughts during the war, and receive a satisfying follow-up about their lives and families after the war. Holden uses past interviews and journals to give us first-hand accounts from these three women, provides photos of them and their environments, and weaves in fascinating historical information about battles, bombs, SS officers, and the camps. You will devour this book as you would a novel, but you will remember it long after as you would the heartbreaking life story of a friend. It is one of the most touching and important books I have ever read.
