“Finding a little hope in the darkness is not a weakness.”
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz, there a Commandant notices her beauty and takes her apart from the other prisoners.
She learns to survive at a young age, and when liberation day comes, she is then charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia, where she experiences the horrors of the Gulags.
This book is part fiction and part non fiction, but it works perfectly, and it goes back and forth with Cilka’s days in Siberia and Auschwitz.
Cilka’s Journey it’s a powerful, brutal, devastating, emotional and beautiful story, about survival, inner strenght, friendship and love.
It’s simply captivating.
“There is a better world out there. I’ve seen it. I remember it.”
“When she wakes from her nightmares Cilka Willingly invites the blankness back. But sometimes it will not stay.”
“Did I tell you about Cilka?” “No Lale, you didn’t. Who was Cilka?” “She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz, there a Commandant notices her beauty and takes her apart from the other prisoners.
She learns to survive at a young age, and when liberation day comes, she is then charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia, where she experiences the horrors of the Gulags.
This book is part fiction and part non fiction, but it works perfectly, and it goes back and forth with Cilka’s days in Siberia and Auschwitz.
Cilka’s Journey it’s a powerful, brutal, devastating, emotional and beautiful story, about survival, inner strenght, friendship and love.
It’s simply captivating.
“There is a better world out there. I’ve seen it. I remember it.”
“When she wakes from her nightmares Cilka Willingly invites the blankness back. But sometimes it will not stay.”
“Did I tell you about Cilka?” “No Lale, you didn’t. Who was Cilka?” “She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the