And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.Based on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Evil and hope clash and burn in the epic and shocking conclusion to the Shadow of the Fox trilogy. 'One of my all-time favourite fantasy novels!' Ellen Oh, author of the Prophecy and Spirit Hunters series, on Shadow of the Fox
In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis' take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss - Hitler's annexation of Austria - as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad
Lang geleden hebben de drakendoders van de Orde van St.-Joris de draken bijna uitgeroeid. Maar ze zijn er nog steeds, en hun aantal neemt zelfs toe onder de ijzeren heerschappij van Talon. Ember en haar broer Dante zijn jonge draken die voor het eerst worden losgelaten in de mensenmaatschappij. Eén zomer lang mogen ze als gewone tieners van hun relatieve vrijheid genieten vóór Talon beslist over hun toekomst. Broer en zus vermaken zich uitstekend met vrienden aan het strand, maar vooral de opstandige Ember wordt nauwlettend in de gaten gehouden. Een van haar nieuwe vrienden is de knappe, serieuze Garret, van wie ze zeer menselijke kriebels in haar buik krijgt. Wat ze niet weet, is dat Garret is opgevoed met maar één doel: hij moet draken die zich verborgen houden tussen de mensen opsporen en vernietigen...