Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her. In 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. After 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. Innocent 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. Based 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. 'She was the bravest
person I ever met' Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz