Reflections Upon Inhumanity and the Resilience of the Human Spirit - Continuing To Remember and Learn From the Nazi Holocaust - by SC Skillman
Cover of Born Survivors by Wendy Holden B Born Survivors by Wendy Holden tells the story of how three young women - Priska, Rachel and Anka - hid their pregnancies from Dr Mengele when they arrived in Auschwitz so their babies might survive . Before reading this book, I hadn't realised that Dr Mengele separated out pregnant women to go straight to the gas chambers. Although I have read several books about the Holocaust including those by survivors, there always seems to be something new to learn about the depths of inhumanity to which the Nazis sank during their period of power. This book tells us of human beings at their most extreme limit of endurance in that complex that specialised in the dismantling of the human spirit . The one thing that keeps you going through all the terrible details is the thought that "the story is only being told to me because the three women and their babies survived." As another survivor Esther Bauer put it: " The fir...