A heart breaking tone in this book will cause you to remember and think about this book for years to come. A very nicely written historical novel.

A Teenage Girl in Auschwitz: Basha Freilich and the Will to Live by Douglas Wellman

In January 1943, when Basha Anush was 14 year-old, she faced her biggest challenge in her life in Pruzhany, Poland, because she was Jewish.

Basha and her family were inevitably sent to Auschwitz. Within few days, 5 of her family members were died in the concentration camp. She, then was the only one in her family fighting to survive under holocaust.

This book was written in a memoir way. It was well-structured, powerful and informative WW2 book. Having hope was not easy, it was even unthinkable during that time.

Many thanks to NetGalley, BQB Publishing, WriteLife Publishing and Douglas Wellman for the copy of the book.

Kindle: 350 pages
Pub date: Sep 12, 2023

Thank you to Douglas Wellman and NetGalley for providing me with this ARC. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I understand "enjoyed " is a strange thing to say about a book heavy with the st9ries of human suffering and depravity. I enjoyed the way it was written. Having chapters be rich with Bashas own words, but then followed up with extra facts relating to what the previous chapter was about was perfect. Neither one muddles the other portions importance. Together it would be too messy and really dilute Bashas story. Separate it was beautiful.

I received an advanced copy of this book from BQB Publishing via NetGalley.

In January 1943, young Basha Anush, just fourteen years old, and her family endured the harrowing experience of being forcibly taken from their Pruzhany, Poland home by Nazi soldiers, then transported to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. Tragically, within a matter of days, five members of her family succumbed to the horrors of the camp, leaving Basha to face two-and-a-half years of unimaginable abuse, a grueling death march into Germany, and months of wandering alongside other displaced girls as the Third Reich crumbled. Remarkably, throughout this ordeal, she held fast to a last-minute promise she made to herself: to survive and share her story with the world.

This memoir is an unflinching account of one young girl's indomitable spirit amid humanity's darkest hours. Basha Anush's storytelling is a testament to the human capacity for hope and strength in the direst of circumstances. This book is a profoundly moving and thought-provoking narrative that reminds us of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of a promise kept.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
Every WWII book I read seems to have a different perspective. This is well written and very informative. Taking Basha's recordings and telling her story was in itself interesting. Each chapter also has historical information and notes at the end that are useful to those who aren't as familiar with WWII.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publishing company and the author for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

This book is one of the most informative towards about Auschwitz and what really happened.

This book ranks with The Diary of Anne Frank, Schindler's List, and the Book Thief.

I also think it should be taught in high school.

This book follows the life of two teenage girls and their different yet same experiences within World War II.

It is confronting and in some places quite shocking to read. The violence is depicted clearly and not glazed over.

I do enjoy the factual wrap ups at the end of chapters with more clarity given to historical elements.

This is extremely well structured. It offers the first-hand account, followed by some historical information and then notes at the end of each chapter, this makes it incredible easy to follow and to cross reference. The author has, in this way, presented more than a memoir, and offers a full social history. The story is both heartbreaking and inspiring and joins the many eye witness accounts which must ensure we, as a society, never forget the evils of the Holocaust.