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Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenauin 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamousgates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newlypregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands.Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to theNazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on toall they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies.That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babieswere born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, isjust one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive andrebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows themothers' incredible journey - first to Auschwitz, where they eachcame under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to aGerman slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked todeath, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, asthe Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey withthousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp inAustria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindnessof strangers, including guards and civilians, helped save thesewomen and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for theanniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United bytheir remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they nowconsider each other siblings of the heart. In Born Survivors,Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first timeto mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversaryof the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how threemothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, BornSurvivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity tocare and to love amid inconceivable cruelty.