The Brothers of Auschwitz [electronic resource]

Adler, Malka2019

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I stroked his cheek, whispered, it’s really you …Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, isolated from the world, and from the horrors of the war.But one day in 1944, everything changes. Hungarian soldiers storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz.Six decades later, from the safety and serenity of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend and emissary who will never let their stories be forgotten.Malka Adler’s extraordinary novel of two brothers and their harrowing journey of reunion and reclamation against all odds draws on the true accounts of Icho and Bernard, as well as her father’s own experiences at Treblinka, where his sister, Malka, and her three children lost their lives in 1943.Praise for The Brothers of Auschwitz:‘It is a book we all must read, read in order to know … It is harsh, enthralling, earth-shattering, rattling – but we must. And nothing less’ Aliza Ziegler, Editor-in-Chief at Proza Books, Yedioth Ahronoth Publishing House‘Great courage is needed to write as Adler does – without softening, without beautifying, without leaving any room to imagination … it is mandatory that a book like this one too, form part of the library of Holocaust books’ Yehudith Rotem, Haaretz newspaper‘This is a book we are not allowed not to read’ Leah Roditi, At Magazine ‘I sat down and read this within a few hours, my wife is now reading it and it is bringing tears to her eyes’ Amazon reviewer‘The story is so incredible and the author writes so beautifully that it is impossible to stay indifferent. I gave the book to my mom and she called me after she finished crying and telling me how much she loved it’ Amazon reviewer