Seventy years ago today the advance guard of the Soviet Red Army reached the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Back in the early 1970s I had a pen-pal named Anca. She lived in Romania. She told me how her grandparents had perished in Auschwitz. Shorty after that she herself perished in the Bucharest earthquake. In her memory I began writing a story about what it might have been like to be a child in the concentration camps. Many, many years later it morphed into a book. Anca’s Story. Three young children smuggle themselves into Auschwitz in search of their mothers. From verified reviews: Probably the most powerful ending to a book I have ever read.” “I havent been so emotionally affected by a book before in all the years I have been reading.” “Harrowing and gripping. This novel was so different from every other Ive read about the Holocaust.” The story is fiction. The events it describes are cruelly real. Anca’s Story – available at all good ebook stores in this the seventieth anniversary of the end of WWII and the Holocaust. I cant remember the last time I promoed a book here, but this is a special occasion and a special book, that in this special year really should be read. By the time we reach the 75th anniversary in 2020 there will be even fewer alive who witnessed these events first hand, as WWII and the Holocaust fade from living memory and become, in every sense of the word, history. Any tweets and shares appreciated. MW
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:58:45 +0000
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