Cilka's Journey

Synopsis

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller the tattooist of auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her ― and condemned her. 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.