I initially picked up this book a couple of times and just wasn’t ready to read it as knew it would be a really tough read. However, having read it now didn’t realise how tough it would be, due to subject matter. I have read many holocaust stories and each one teaches me more about this horrific period of time and the horrors that was faced. I find it amazing that anyone survived.

This book is something I cannot describe. It has affected me badly reading and thinking should I read this book.
It has told me more about maybe my own family who were in the camps, and my grandparents who would never talk about their family who they lost. It took courage to write this book, and it also took courage for me to read it.

A very moving and disturbing book that leaves you extremely raw when you're finished. You're able to feel every emotion the brothers feel throughout the story. It's crazy what human beings went through during the Holocaust and it's so heartbreaking that anyone would make them endure the pain of just being Jewish. A must read!

I was given a copy of The brothers of Auschwitz by Malka Adler in exchange for an honest review. The story is based around to brothers separated in Auschwitz. This is told by the brothers, their experiences and the things the saw in Auschwitz. The book I believe has been translated so I found it difficult to read in parts. The book is very descriptive and doesn't hold back from the true horrors. A good book for people who are interested in true accounts of Auschwitz

I decided to stop reading this book at 21% through. The writing style as told in first person from each individual was frustrating to follow. There were no quotations and even though I imagine it’s told as quoted, the sentences were often long and confusing. Each chapter alternates between the two brothers and for some reason I couldn’t keep track of who was Dov and who was Yitzak, mainly who was where and what had happened to them. I’ve read many fiction and non-fiction stories of WWII and the Holocaust, and was expecting something similar to Elie Wiesel’s Night, or Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning and was disappointed.

What a powerful and well written account of the horrors of the Holocaust. I find it hard to say I enjoyed a book about such a hard subject but it is a book everyone should read. A book that will stay with me for a long time. Thank you NetGalley.

The holocaust has always been so heart breaking yet so intriguing to me. It’s almost like “rubber necking”. You know something horrific is happening that you shouldn’t watch it, but you can’t help but be drawn to the disaster.

This story was soul crushing. The description of the camps brought me back to my history classes in middle school. This was a beautifully written, devastating story of these brothers, but they pushed on.

I adore this author and this book was a brilliant read and one that is perfect to escape for a few hours and loose yourself.
Characters that fall out of the pages of the book and make you fell apart of the story, the setting comes alive and captured is well with words.
A great read. that I would highly recommend.

Wow! I almost gave up on this one because of the writing style very early on in the book. I am glad I didn’t because this was hands down the most in-depth account of what was endured both mentally and physically during the Holocaust that I have read so far.
Reading that they weren’t only starving but that their bodies would turn on them when they ate fatty foods or a smidge meat that they were not used to eating anymore. How the things that happened in those camps affected the way they lived after the Liberation and many many years later. Places they just couldn’t go, things they couldn’t handle seeing because of the reminders of those terrible camps.
Definitely a must read and a solid 4 ⭐️ from me.

Thanks to Net Galley and Harper Collins UK for the advanced copy!

I just finished this book late last night. This book has a different perspective to other books I've read before regarding the Holocaust. I have never read before about life after the camps. I enjoyed it and it saddens me to read about all that suffering and loss of life. This is a book that everyone should read.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley.

While this book is a historical fiction novel, it is inspired by two real brothers. That makes it that much harder to read the horrors they endured.

This book was beautifully written. While the subject matter was difficult, the story itself was powerful.

Check this book out.

Received from Net Gallery,it's so heartbreaking of what these two brothers and sisters had to go through and others, before, during and after the war. The description and research in this story was fabulous beyond words. You feel everything that these people had to endure and if it doesn't move you then, well,I just don't know what to say! These characters they come to life for you! Not only what they went through during this horrible time but to try to heal from all this tragedy,no wonder so many never really did and even living through this time some took their lives because they survived. Grab the tissues,you will need them!

It took me to a few chapters to get into a groove with this writing style, but once I did, it got ahold of me. This story is told how you would hear it in an interview. The text is choppy as if you were listening to someone recount a deeply heard memory. I have read quite a bit from he WWII era, but this gripped me int he pit of my stomach. It’s truly shocking to see how humans can behave. The babies hot me hardest. They would hit them in the head with the butt of their rifle and throw them in the pile. One recounted tale told about the soldiers playing kickball with a baby until it died.

As with every horrific recounting of these times, I found myself staring at the words on the screen. How did humanity ever get to that point? How were so many people convinced that it was a good thing to treat human life as refuse? How do we keep this from ever happening again? How on earth did these people survive this?

This was a powerful book about two brothers that came through the unimaginable and the post war trauma they had to live with after. It’s brilliant and make you realize how fragile life truly is.

This book is very difficult to read because of the content, it's a harrowing story of brothers Dov and Yitzhak as they try and survive the death camps. This story is heartbreaking and breathtaking. While I appreciate that it's fiction, the story is inspired by the witness testimony of real, true survivors and the writing style makes you feel as though you are really there, listening to the survivors tell their story unfiltered, raw and emotional. You will not finish this book without it affecting you on some level. This is a powerful book, and an incredible story of survival and strength. Malka Adler does a remarkable job telling this story in away that will grab you from page one and hold your attention to the very end. This book is easily a 5 star read.

This book is a heart stirring story of 2 brothers and their experiences during World War II. Malka Adler tells their story through their eyes, leaving we readers feeling as if we are sitting in the room listening as the story unfolds. A couple of times I had to set the book down and walk away for a bit. A horrible event in history brought to life and death by a skilled story teller.

Poignant and moving, the two brothers, Dov and Yitzhak, endure unimaginable pain and brutality in the dark place that is Auschwitz. Their survival against all odds makes you think again about the strength and endurability that is possible in a human being, and serves as a warning against the events that lead up to the potential for savagery in government and dictators.

Review for 'The brothers of Aushcwitz' by Malka Adler
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My brother’s tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it’s really you …

Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war.

But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz.

Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend who will never let their stories be forgotten.

Malka Adler’s extraordinary biographical novel of a family separated by the Holocaust and their harrowing journey back to each other is based on interviews with the brothers she grew up with by the Sea of Galilee. When they decided to tell their story, she was the only one they would talk to.

This is the harrowing and brutal story of 2 brothers during the Holocaust. I agreed to review this book in exchange for an honest review which is what I will do. Due to the way the book was written and the fact that it had been translated I did struggle for quite a long time to actually 'get into' it. There were a few sentences that I just skipped completely due to it being in another language and with no translation put in, there wasn't a huge amount but enough to find it quite annoying that I didn't understand what was being said. I enjoyed the fact that there is a chapter towards the end from another person's perspective, I will not say who from as it will spoil it a bit for those who wish to read the book. I have read many true accounts from Jews and others during the holocaust and found this one of the hardest to read. However, onto the positives. As previously stated there was a chapter that I found a nice extra and I enjoyed the fact that the book told of their lives before and after the war without going into too much detail. I would still recommend this book to anyone interested in reading about survivors of the Holocaust. The book was very descriptive in several places and the author doesn't sugar coat events which I am grateful for as people should read the naked truth, as brutal as it is, because the survivors deserve people to know the reality of life in the camps. There are several people in the book who went out of their way to help as much as they could and it would be nice to know what became of them but as in every true story, life doesn't always give answers.
I was undecided on what to actually rate this book as it was difficult to read (due to how it was written) which was the biggest reason for my eventual decision of 3/5 stars which I rated it on Goodreads and Amazon. 99p to buy on Kindle

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This story covers a really important time in the world's history, especially my country where Nazi camp Auschwitz was base, Poland. I always try to get the most out of that kind of book an go into then with an open mind as we can never be sure what happened in all those camps during WWII.
The story of the siblings is graphic, traumatic and made me feel like a much older person while reading, and feel shame for what was going on then, as I think NOTHING like that should EVER happen.
The style of this book made it sometimes really hard for me to follow, as it felt REAL, yet hard to read and understand while reading it once and quickly (maybe too quickly?), yet sometimes sentences were like one or two words for a few lines.
It was a really good read with a HARD topic, that hadn't worked for me in the style that it was written - try if it will be your cup of tea!

Absolutely harrowing. I’ve read so many stories about Auschwitz and WW2 and this was another incredible story told. Highly recommend to anyone who is interested in learning more about the time or for someone already interested.

I’ve had a difficult time getting into this book due to the prose writing style. I’m hoping to finish it at a later date to write a more comprehensive review.