TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris, Heather
AU  - Matthews, Owen,
AU  - Morris, Heather
TI  - Cilka's journey
T2  - [The Tattooist of Auschwitz]
SN  - 9781643583808
AV  - PR9639.4.M668 C55 2019b
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2019///.
CY  - Thorndike, Maine : 
PB  - Center Point Large Print
KW  - Birkenau (Concentration camp)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women prisoners
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Siberia
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Germany
KW  - Rape victims
KW  - Ex-concentration camp inmates
KW  - Women healers
KW  - Siberia (Russia)
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
N1  - Series information from www.goodreads.com; Afterword by Owen Matthews; Sequel to: The tattooist of Auschwitz
N2  - Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when she was still a child? In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love. From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit and the will we have to survive
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