After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Book 1)

by Eva Schloss

our

hated pulling the sharp bones out

these days were filled with anguish and despair but for those who were not on the list and had won perhaps an extra week’s reprieve, there was also sharp relief. Inmates wrote about the incongruity of seeing Jews being shoved on board the train and the doors slammed shut, as across

Prague. We had spent many holidays

easily, but I couldn’t push away the

toughest,

Heinrich Himmler, who had overseen

hair samples, including those reused

board. Other people in our car held

at the toothpaste and toothbrush

… I can’t agree with him about that because my biggest pain is

paintings beneath the floorboards

camp. Mutti and I took a great

sometimes so I didn’t welcome Mutti

attended in Amsterdam) took on the role of founding Chair. He also introduced us to an enthusiastic young woman called

passed she sometimes disagreed