Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 1944Mindel walked as fast as her little legs would carry her to keep up with her big sister. The unfriendly men in black uniforms used their usual "Schnell! Schnell!" shouts to propel the mass of women and children forward.
Not Without My Sister ~ by Marion Kummerow, 2021, fiction (Germany)
1944, Germany. Two sisters seek to overcome impossible odds to be reunited, in this utterly devastating and unforgettable novel about sisterhood, courage and survival. All they had left was each other. Until the Nazis tore them apart. After years of hiding from the Nazis, Rachel Epstein and her little sister Mindel are captured by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The only ray of light for either girl is that they are together. But on arrival they are separated. As she’s seventeen and deemed an adult, Rachel is sent to work in a brutal factory while four-year-old Mindel is sent into the so-called "star" camp for Jewish prisoners. All on her own, Rachel knows her sister will have no chance of survival — unless she can find someone to take care of her.Working in the windowless, airless factory — filling munitions casings with chemicals that burn her fingers and make her eyes sting — the only thing that keeps Rachel going is the thought of her little sister. Because if there’s even a chance Mindel is alive, Rachel knows she must try to save her. But separated by barbed wire and treated brutally by SS guards who do not even see them as human beings, can either of the orphaned sisters ever dare to hope that they’ll find their way back to each other? And to freedom?
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