The Resource Born survivors, Wendy Holden
Born survivors, Wendy Holden
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Resource Information
The item Born survivors, Wendy Holden represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. They were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. These young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. This book follows the mothers' incredible journey, first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three miracle babies met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other siblings of the heart. This book brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, this is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and to love amid inconceivable cruelty
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Note
- "Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and survival"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780751557411
- Label
- Born survivors
- Title
- Born survivors
- Statement of responsibility
- Wendy Holden
- Title variation
- Born survivors
- Title variation remainder
- three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. They were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. These young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. This book follows the mothers' incredible journey, first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three miracle babies met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other siblings of the heart. This book brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, this is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and to love amid inconceivable cruelty
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TRACS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holden, Wendy
- Dewey number
- 940.5318
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish women in the Holocaust
- Holocaust survivors
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Born survivors, Wendy Holden
- Note
- "Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and survival"--Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- cartographic image
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- cri
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000057057173
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780751557411
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)936345635
- Label
- Born survivors, Wendy Holden
- Note
- "Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and survival"--Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- cartographic image
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- cri
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000057057173
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780751557411
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)936345635
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