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Cilka's journey
- Title
- Cilka's journey / Heather Morris.
- Author
- Morris, Heather (Screenwriter)
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-272 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Matthews, Owen
- Description
- 343 pages : map; 25 cm
- Summary
- Cilka 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. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child? In 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. Cilka 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.
- Subjects
- Women prisoners
- Biographical fiction
- Siberia (Russia) > Fiction
- Women prisoners > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Fiction
- Russia (Federation) > Siberia
- Ex-concentration camp inmates > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Birkenau (Concentration camp) Fiction
- Rape victims > Fiction
- FICTION / Jewish
- FICTION / Historical / World War II
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Note
- Sequel to: The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
- Includes a note from the author and additional biographical information about Cecilia "Cilka" Klein (p. 322-340).
- Afterword by Owen Matthews.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-272
- ISBN
- 9781250265708
- 1250265703
- OCLC
- 1120052964
- Author
- Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), author.
- Title
- Cilka's journey / Heather Morris.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Matthews, Owen, writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-272