Cilka's Journey

by Heather Morris

Book Overview

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.

Her beauty saved her -- and condemned her.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250265703
• ISBN13: 9781250265708
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Better than Book 1

After borrowing book 1 from my aunt and reading it. I HAD to read book 2 in this series. I enjoyed book 2 more than book 1. Due to some of the violence ( we will call it) in the book, I did have to take breaks from reading it at times. It overwhelmed me emotionally, especially being a woman! It made my heart so happy for the ending after all the violence. It's amazing that this fiction story is based on a real person and her heroic story. I'm really looking forward to book 3!

Heart breaking, eye opening

This broke my heart, I reccomend reading the tattooist of auschwitz first. It's where you first see Cilka and see the true horrors of her life. It really shows you what people were facing and how they had to survive. Freedom wasn't given to a true victim.

Loved this book!

This book was another good one by Heather Morris.

Great series

I love that heather wrote this book about Cilka. She went through and amazing courage she has. It was a fast read.

Engrossing!

While this book may not be all true, it is based on real events and is very well written. I really enjoyed going along with Cilka as went from the Auschwitz-Birkenau to being sentenced to Vorkuta Gulag after being accused of colluding with the Nazis. Hers is a complicated story, because of her beauty Cilka is claimed by the powerful and that is how she ends up at the Gulag. Life is hard there but she is able to try and do some good when she ends up working at the prisoner hospital and also taking care of the babies that are born there. The hospital stuff was pretty fascinating and really showed Cilka's kindness and generosity. There is a lot of emotion in this story and you can see how Cilka works things out based on her previous experiences at the concentration camp. This is a really good book to go along with Heather Morris' previous novel, The Tatooist of Auschwitz.