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Cilka's journey, a novel, Heather Morris

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Cilka's journey, a novel, Heather Morris

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Cilka's journey

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Heather Morris

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child?

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