{"product_id":"cilkas-journey","title":"Cilka's Journey","description":"Product Description      \nHer beauty saved her life - and condemned her.\n\nCilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.\n\nIn a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and taught new skills. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.\n\nCilka finds endless resources within herself as she daily confronts death and faces terror. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.\n\n\n'She was the bravest person I ever met'\n\nLale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz \n      Book Description      \nThe sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience \n      From the Author      \nBorn in New Zealand, Heather Morris lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003, she met Lale Sokolov, a meeting that changed both their lives. As their friendship grew, he entrusted her with the task of telling the world the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust.\n      From the Back Cover      \nHer beauty saved her life - and condemned her.\n\nIn 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.\n\nAfter liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.\n\nInnocent and imprisoned once again, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, each day a battle for survival. Cilka befriends a woman doctor, and learns to nurse the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under unimaginable conditions. And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.\n\nBased on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz. A powerful testament to the triumph of the human will, this novel will make you weep, but it will also leave you astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to survive, against all odds.\n\n'She was the bravest person I ever met'\nLale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz\n      About the Author      \nBorn in New Zealand, Heather Morris lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003, she met Lale Sokolov, a meeting that changed both their lives. As their friendship grew, he entrusted her with the task of telling the world the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663099379797,"sku":"9781785769139N","price":701.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/b01825d7-0f45-43f6-a2a0-d8aa13d6b0d2.jpg?v=1644280380","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/cilkas-journey","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}