Cilka's Journey

This book is a page turner. Not a big fan of part of it being made up, but none the less it is a good book.

Beautiful and eye opening. Loved it and learned so much.

This broke my heart, I reccomend reading the tattooist of auschwitz first. It's where you first see Cilka and see the true horrors of her life. It really shows you what people were facing and how they had to survive. Freedom wasn't given to a true victim.

This book was another good one by Heather Morris.

I love that heather wrote this book about Cilka. She went through and amazing courage she has. It was a fast read.

While this book may not be all true, it is based on real events and is very well written. I really enjoyed going along with Cilka as went from the Auschwitz-Birkenau to being sentenced to Vorkuta Gulag after being accused of colluding with the Nazis. Hers is a complicated story, because of her beauty Cilka is claimed by the powerful and that is how she ends up at the Gulag. Life is hard there but she is able to try and do some good when she ends up working at the prisoner hospital and also taking care of the babies that are born there. The hospital stuff was pretty fascinating and really showed Cilka's kindness and generosity. There is a lot of emotion in this story and you can see how Cilka works things out based on her previous experiences at the concentration camp. This is a really good book to go along with Heather Morris' previous novel, The Tatooist of Auschwitz.