Born Survivors

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka passed through its gates with a secret: they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis. each woman was determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives and those of their unborn babies. 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 labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; finally theirhellish seventeen-day train journey to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers helped save those who emerged from the train alive. Sixty-five years later, the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them"--Publisher's description.