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Fascinating, heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting story about life in a prison camp in Soviet Russia after World War II.

Cilka Klein briefly thinks her life is about to improve when she is released from a concentration camp at the end of the war. Instead she is put in a train car for a harrowing journey to Siberia. Things just keep getting worse, until a young doctor recognizes her facility with languages, and later, gift for nursing. In her years in the prison camp, despite experiencing unspeakable horrors, Cilka manages to forge relationships and selflessly help others on occasion.

Cilka is an unforgettable heroine, and author Morris fleshes out a period in history only briefly covered in most history classes. Although a quasi-sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, you need not read the first book to follow Cilka’s Journey. #NetGalley #CilkasJourney