Horrific tale of survival

• Published date: 22 June 2022

By Andra and Tatiana Bucci, translated by Ann Goldstein, Allen & Unwin, $32.99

What happened to the children who ended up in Auschwitz in Word War II?

Most died, either on the way there, or in the horrific conditions inside, or when used for experiments. Many youngsters pretended they were 18 as small children were generally murdered as soon as they arrived.

Ann Goldstein has taken a book written by two Italian sisters and translated their ghastly story into English.

Their mother’s family were Russian Jews who fled a pogrom to what is now Croatia. It’s extraordinary to think these girls, aged six and four, survived their ordeal and returned to their parents aged only nine and seven. They had assumed their parents were dead.

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