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A review by milly_164
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
5.0
once again, Morris has written a heart-wrenching story about the horrors faced by those under the Nazi regime and the suffering that took place after. Cilka’ Journey, just like The Tattooist of Auschwitz, completely transformed my perception of life in concentration and death camps.
i have studied these in school and still am, but nowhere near to the extent that is detailed in these books. what i previously knew about places such as these was awful, but knowing what i know now is even worse.
like i said in my review for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this book and many others like it are so *so* important for understanding what goes on in the darkest corners of humanity and the injustice felt by those wrongly imprisoned in the hope that it is never repeated.
at the end of the book, there is a note from Morris about what girls like Cilka had suffered: rape at the hands of Nazis. Morris emphasises that these girls who had no choice but to submit or face death were not in the wrong. they are faultless in what happened to them. all they did was try to survive. i hope one day we as a society will not shame them for that.
thank you, Heather Morris, for writing these books and preserving these people in history. and thank you for telling the stories that may not ever have been told otherwise.
i have studied these in school and still am, but nowhere near to the extent that is detailed in these books. what i previously knew about places such as these was awful, but knowing what i know now is even worse.
like i said in my review for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this book and many others like it are so *so* important for understanding what goes on in the darkest corners of humanity and the injustice felt by those wrongly imprisoned in the hope that it is never repeated.
at the end of the book, there is a note from Morris about what girls like Cilka had suffered: rape at the hands of Nazis. Morris emphasises that these girls who had no choice but to submit or face death were not in the wrong. they are faultless in what happened to them. all they did was try to survive. i hope one day we as a society will not shame them for that.
thank you, Heather Morris, for writing these books and preserving these people in history. and thank you for telling the stories that may not ever have been told otherwise.