What are your thoughts on this one? The descriptions of life in the gulag were vivid and relevant today in light of the current new gulag system and Alexei Navalny's death.
Book Review
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Cilka Klein is just sixteen when she is taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942. She is repeatedly raped and forced to herd fellow prisoners, sick and weak women, to the gas chambers. She miraculously survives and when the death camp is liberated, she is sentenced to 15 years in a Russian gulag. Her ordeal in the German concentration camp is slowly revealed in flash backs, and in spite of the continued cruelty and hardship in the Siberian work camp, she continues to help others.
While Cilka is an actual person mentioned in the best selling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the story is a blend of truth and fiction. I found her...
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