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# BORN SURVIVORS

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Review: A book that simply must be read by Holocaust scholars - Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope was written by Wendy Holden. This is a fascinating story of three young women and their travel through the years of the Holocaust and their undeniable courage in staying pregnant through their horrors of Auschwitz, Frieberg, and Mathausen. That they were able to keep their pregnancy hidden from Dr. Mengele and others and after giving birth in horrific circumstances to keep their babies alive in unbelievable. Their stories are told in alternate chapters of their life before the war, life and birth during the war, and life after the war. This is followed by how their children learned of each other and came together to write this amazing story of their mothers. It is simply an amazing book. However, it is very difficult to read. I had to stop after every two or three chapters and then come back to it. Wendy Holden does such an amazing job of telling their stories that you seem to be there with them. Tissues are a must for this book. Having met the Baby of Dachau, a child just hours old when liberated, I still never thought of the presence of babies in other liberated camps. It is heartening to know that out of the midst of this horror, new life began and flourished. These babies are the symbol of hope for all of us. Words cannot portray the emotions I felt while reading this book and afterwards.
Review: Hope against amazing odds - I had to wait a few days to compose my review for this book, as I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to put into words what I felt when I read it. I've read a lot of WWII non-fiction and historical fiction lately; it is an era that both fascinates and repulses me. Out of all the books I have read in this genre so far, this one shocked me the most. This book covers a topic that most people probably do not think about when it comes to the concentration camps in and around Germany - women who were pregnant, or even more mind-boggling, BECAME pregnant while in the camps. This book is the story of three of those women, and it is both heartbreaking and mind-blowing. Holden does a really good job of showing the mindset of many Jews during the early years of the war, when for some life was just becoming inconvenient, perhaps a little strange, but never dreaming of the atrocities the next few years would bring. The background for each woman's own portion of the book gives a wonderful insight into the lives of Jewish families at the beginning of the war, and this really connects the reader to each of them, knowing what is at stake for each character. It highlights the unexpected hope that these women had, for themselves and their futures, as all three of them actively chose to bring a child into a very tumultuous world. The story stems from that hope, and traverses a journey to keep that hope alive, along with the children growing inside their mother's increasingly ravaged bodies. Graphic in detail, I squirmed through several parts, mostly the descriptions of the literally inhumane conditions that these women lived through. The detail of the housing and survival conditions that these women and others around them managed to live through is staggering. In fact, the only thing that made me continue reading the book at some points was the knowledge that the babies they each carried survived (this is not a spoiler, for this is how the book came to be). It is unimaginable the strength that these women had, to carry a child into a hellscape such as these children were born into. It is not a book for everyone, if you are squeamish or find it hard to read accounts of torture or violent mistreatment, this will be a hard one to get through. But, it is also important to acknowledge that it happened, and if we suffer as readers far removed from the actual events, maybe we would have the smallest inkling of what it was really like to experience the Holocaust. During a time of political and ethnic unrest, the least we can do is read their story. The most we can do is tell others, so that we can try to assure our children that history will not repeat itself.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #357,565 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #189 in Jewish Holocaust History #506 in Women's Biographies #639 in Women in History |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (10,626) |
| Dimensions  | 5.31 x 1 x 8 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 006237026X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0062370266 |
| Item Weight  | 10.2 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 400 pages |
| Publication date  | April 18, 2016 |
| Publisher  | Perennial |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book that simply must be read by Holocaust scholars
*by P***S on March 12, 2017*

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope was written by Wendy Holden. This is a fascinating story of three young women and their travel through the years of the Holocaust and their undeniable courage in staying pregnant through their horrors of Auschwitz, Frieberg, and Mathausen. That they were able to keep their pregnancy hidden from Dr. Mengele and others and after giving birth in horrific circumstances to keep their babies alive in unbelievable. Their stories are told in alternate chapters of their life before the war, life and birth during the war, and life after the war. This is followed by how their children learned of each other and came together to write this amazing story of their mothers. It is simply an amazing book. However, it is very difficult to read. I had to stop after every two or three chapters and then come back to it. Wendy Holden does such an amazing job of telling their stories that you seem to be there with them. Tissues are a must for this book. Having met the Baby of Dachau, a child just hours old when liberated, I still never thought of the presence of babies in other liberated camps. It is heartening to know that out of the midst of this horror, new life began and flourished. These babies are the symbol of hope for all of us. Words cannot portray the emotions I felt while reading this book and afterwards.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hope against amazing odds
*by A***N on May 24, 2017*

I had to wait a few days to compose my review for this book, as I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to put into words what I felt when I read it. I've read a lot of WWII non-fiction and historical fiction lately; it is an era that both fascinates and repulses me. Out of all the books I have read in this genre so far, this one shocked me the most. This book covers a topic that most people probably do not think about when it comes to the concentration camps in and around Germany - women who were pregnant, or even more mind-boggling, BECAME pregnant while in the camps. This book is the story of three of those women, and it is both heartbreaking and mind-blowing. Holden does a really good job of showing the mindset of many Jews during the early years of the war, when for some life was just becoming inconvenient, perhaps a little strange, but never dreaming of the atrocities the next few years would bring. The background for each woman's own portion of the book gives a wonderful insight into the lives of Jewish families at the beginning of the war, and this really connects the reader to each of them, knowing what is at stake for each character. It highlights the unexpected hope that these women had, for themselves and their futures, as all three of them actively chose to bring a child into a very tumultuous world. The story stems from that hope, and traverses a journey to keep that hope alive, along with the children growing inside their mother's increasingly ravaged bodies. Graphic in detail, I squirmed through several parts, mostly the descriptions of the literally inhumane conditions that these women lived through. The detail of the housing and survival conditions that these women and others around them managed to live through is staggering. In fact, the only thing that made me continue reading the book at some points was the knowledge that the babies they each carried survived (this is not a spoiler, for this is how the book came to be). It is unimaginable the strength that these women had, to carry a child into a hellscape such as these children were born into. It is not a book for everyone, if you are squeamish or find it hard to read accounts of torture or violent mistreatment, this will be a hard one to get through. But, it is also important to acknowledge that it happened, and if we suffer as readers far removed from the actual events, maybe we would have the smallest inkling of what it was really like to experience the Holocaust. During a time of political and ethnic unrest, the least we can do is read their story. The most we can do is tell others, so that we can try to assure our children that history will not repeat itself.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Holocaust - rough read - VERY descriptive of the horrors!
*by T***L on June 2, 2021*

I guess I expected it to be a more story-like about the Holocaust experiences of 3 women who became mothers during their time in the horrid concentration camps. It was a lot more than that. It grabs you right off with the personal experiences each woman experienced and photos of them and their husbands, followed by camp photos, train railways and boxcars, and later the children they birthed. Then come the actual live-account descriptions of their life during that time. It's very graphic and very descriptive. So it becomes more real-life historical. The author conferred with all 3 families and really did her homework on research, so you have no doubt it was real. These 3 women represented what fortitude and unknown strength mother-to-be/mothers possess when they know they MUST survive for the children and the hope that their husbands actually made it through the Holocaust, as well. The dream of something and someone (be it their husbands and/or families) to go home to. BE PREPARED - rough read!

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