ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR NAME: The Children of Auschwitz

These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. On 28th March 1944, Tati aged six and Andra aged four were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and the sisters were among only 70 child survivors. Throughout their ordeal in the camp and the liberation of Auschwitz, their long journey from Poland to Czechoslovakia and finally to Lingfield House in Britain, they hung on to the promise to their mother to 'always remember your name'. They never forgot this connection to their heritage that brought them miraculously back to their parents, years later and many countries away. The sisters were born in 1937 and 1939 respectively and theirs is a story about the normality of horror and the long road of return and how they came to the conviction that it was crucial to tell their story. 161pp, paperback, photos.