A review of the book Auschwitz Lullaby by Mario Escobar

This book shook me to my core! It was one of the most saddest stories I have ever written. I cannot believe how many people died in camps during Hitler's reign. This book talks about a woman and her husband and five children who died during the Auschwitz camps. This was actually a true story. The woman Helene had a chance to make it out alive but leave her children but she could not do it and choose to die with them. They were murdered in gas chambers. The characters the author uses are true names of real life characters who lived and suffered in the Gypsy camp in Auschwitz.

"According to the official register, 20,843 ethnic gypsies were imprisoned in Auschwitz, though many thousands more were murdered up on arrival to the camp, with no count or trace of their presence.. An estimate 271 gypsy children were born at the camp. An investigator Michael Zimmermann claims there was really 22,600 prisoners at the camp, 3,300 who survived when they transferred to other camps around the middle of 1944. The two attempts to exterminate the camp were real events, as was the gypsy resistance in May 1944, which delayed the camp's elimination until August of that year. "Page 266 to page 267.

I did enjoy the quote which I cannot remember which page it came from which says "sometimes we have to lose everything to find out what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things that had always been invisible take on their true value"

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