Barbara Powell's Reviews > The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

This is a beautifully told yet tragic story based on true events and real people. It’s kind of a fictional memoir about the lives of Mala, an inmate at Auschwitz-Birkenau who was the first woman to escape the camp and Edek, a fighter in the underground resistance who had the escape plan. They vowed do succeed in escaping together or die trying. It is a heartbreaking love story with many moments of beauty in between.
I always enjoy reading historical fiction, in part because of the ways the stories are told, but also because the people are so incredibly strong and brave and you as the reader are given such vivid details of the horrors they endured and how much the people like Mala and Edek were willing to do to get the freedom that they were entitled to and deserved.
Mala and Edek not only looked out for themselves, as most people do nowadays, but they made sure that any contraband that they were able to get was shared with others. And by the end of the story, the depths of emotions you have felt is indescribable.
Highly recommend to fans of this genre.
Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for this arc in exchange for my review.