Thank You to NetGalley, Little, Brown and Company, and Keren Blankfeld.

I was drawn to this book because of it's summary WWII, romance, Europe, holocaust, survival, history, Jewish, antisemitism, and relationships. I loved the book and its main characters, Zippi and David. They are well developed characters. The couple meet under horrific historical events and build a romance, only to be separated by war. Will they find their way back to each other? What will they experience apart? Will they survive? It is obvious the author did a lot of research and was in contact with survivors, their families, and other first hand accounts and documents. I may have needed a few Kleenexes, but I still kept on reading and finished it.

This was such a good book! I loved the characters, and their story. The dialogue was realistic and enjoyable. I was very surprised by the ending!

Wow this is a beautifully intense read! As any book that deals with the Holocaust and life in the camps, this book has passages that are hard to read, but so needed to show the brutality that everyone there went through.
I liked that this is a true story. Even though David didn't really talk about his time there till much later in life, I am glad that this story is out there.
Both Zippi and David are such strong characters and the way you read about them you can feel the magnetism between them.
I also liked the pictures throughout.
A beautifully written book, that should be added to shelves everywhere.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC.

“Can beauty still exist in an inferno?”

A harrowing love story set in WW11 Auschwitz. At parts, hard to read in detail what David, Zippi, and countless others experienced in Auschwitz. Truly a stain in our world’s history, but their love story in finding solace in each other was beautiful. I've always wondered how soldiers and the Jewish people were able to move on from such a tragic event, so I loved how the author included that David didn't speak about his time in Auschwitz to his family, but shared as they got older. How some people processed the horrors that occurred there was fascinating to read. Overall, just reading about how they built their lives, some coming to America, was so moving. Truly a fascinating read.