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04451aam a2200553Ii 4500 001 D68CF276180611E69B9DA392DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 140926s2015 nyuab b 000 0ceng d 020 $a 006237026X 020 $a 9780062370266 035 $a (OCoLC)891610326 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCO $d WIM $d OCLCO $d ZQP $d ABG $d CGP $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d UPZ $d SILO 050 4 $a D804.47 $b .H65 2015 082 04 $a 940.53180922 $2 23 100 1 $a Holden, Wendy, $d 1961- $e author 245 10 $a Born survivors : $b three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope / $c Wendy Holden 250 $a First U.S. edition 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c [2015] 300 $a 385 pages, pbk. : $b illustrations, map ; $c 20 cm 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group"--Title-page verso 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-375) 505 0 $a Priska -- Rachel -- Anka -- Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- Freiberg -- The train -- Mauthausen -- Liberation -- Home -- Reunion -- Roll call 520 $a Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom 520 $a Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have 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. Born Survivors 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-labor camp, where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and, finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish seventeen-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Biographer Wendy Holden details the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, which helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three "miracle babies" meet for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the American liberation. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they come to consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Holden 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, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and love amid inconceivable cruelty 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $v Biography 650 0 $a Jewish women in the Holocaust $v Biography 650 0 $a Prisoners of war 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons 650 0 $a Children of Holocaust survivors 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 16 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710030530.0 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323012004.0 952 $l GVPC501 $d 20231222012802.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012014342.0 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20230217012302.0 952 $l EGPB605 $d 20220917102936.0 $m 00052969 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728012412.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220302013534.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722050340.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323015449.0 952 $l TZPC572 $d 20201017013604.0 952 $l SSPB104 $d 20200219011443.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717030331.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403032041.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418110702.0 952 $l EXPC755 $d 20160512010145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D68CF276180611E69B9DA392DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search