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Au cœur de l'enfer, une femme se bat pour l'espoir. "Rappelle-toi: notre seule arme, c'est de rester en vie, et pour rester en vie, nous devons aimer, nous devons donner, et, malheureusement, nous devons souffrir." Lorsqu'elle arrive à Auschwitz, sous un ciel bas et gris, Ana est persuadée qu'elle ne survivra pas à l'enfer du camp. Mais elle possède une compétence que les nazis recherchent : elle est sage-femme. Son travail sera de donner naissance aux enfants des autres prisonnières.

" Que vaut-il mieux ? Que votre enfant meure avec vous, ou qu'il reste en vie loin de vous ? ". Cristelle Ledroit met son émotion et sa voix claire au service de ce second tome bouleversant. Dans l'enfer d'Auschwitz, Ester caresse doucement les cheveux de Pippa, son bébé. C'est un miracle que sa petite fille soit blonde, car grâce à ce détail l'enfant pourra rester en vie. Bientôt, les nazis viendront prendre son bébé pour le donner à une famille allemande. Mais Ester veut croire qu'un jour, après la guerre, elle retrouvera sa Pippa.

En 1945, la guerre est terminée et Auschwitz est enfin libéré. À 16 ans, Tasha franchit les grilles du camp en route vers la liberté. Elle se retourne pour regarder une dernière fois ce lieu qui lui a volé son enfance en se demandant comment elle a pu survivre à cet enfer alors que tant d'autres n'y sont pas parvenus. Mais la joie d'être enfin libre est ternie par l'absence de sa mère. Quelques semaines plus tôt, elle lui a été arrachée des bras par un officier nazi... Où a-t-il emmené sa mère ? Est-elle encore en vie ?

Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tattooed and they’re ordered to the maternity hut. Holding an innocent newborn baby, Ana knows the fate of so many are in her hands and vows to do everything she can to save them.

Dans ce quatrième tome du cycle Femmes de guerre , Cristelle Ledroit prête sa voix - toujours avec beaucoup d'émotion et une grande justesse - à un incroyable récit tiré de l'histoire vraie de femmes courageuses, ayant combattu lors de l'Insurrection de Varsovie. Anna Stuart est une romancière britannique. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs romans qui se déroulent pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ainsi que des sagas médiévales. Ses livres, devenus des best-sellers, sont traduits dans une dizaine de langues.

Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant, only for her precious baby to be snatched from her and taken to a German family. Now the war is over, Ester longs to find her little girl.

1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now… Sixteen-year-old Tasha Ancel turns to take one last look at the imposing place that stole her freedom and her childhood. She has no idea how she continued to live when so many others did not. For the first time in months, her heart beats with hope for her future and that of the smaller children who cling to her now.

Berlin Zoo, 1943: Ten-year-old Adelaide and her newborn sister are orphaned after a devastating night of bombing. Heartbroken and frightened, Adelaide runs to her mother’s closest friend, Katharina Heinroth, and the kind zookeeper takes the two little girls under her protection. As the bombing intensifies, Adelaide tries to shut out the horrors of war by caring for her tiny sister and playing with the adorable baby monkeys. But when Katharina organizes a dangerous operation to enable children and animals to escape the battle-scarred city, something goes wrong.

She steps into the room and it’s like going back in time. Catapulting her right into the heart of the 1940s. The spindle of the record player frozen and ready to play. The flowery wallpaper faded but intact. A soldier’s uniform pressed and hung on a door, coal still in the fireplace.

Hana’s home has gone up in flames; the little bakery at the heart of the city is no more. Smoke curls into the sky and the buildings around her burn. But Hana has already lost far more – her blue-eyed fiancé was wrenched from her arms at the start of the war and her brave father was murdered by the Nazis. She’s determined to protect her younger sisters but every day more people are being killed… Hana realises that one person alone won’t win the war and she has to accept her sisters are playing their own part in the resistance.

Pearl Harbor, 1941: On the morning of December 7, Ginny is flying her little yellow plane above the sparkling seas when she spots an unknown aircraft closing in on her. She recognises the red symbol of the Japanese fighter planes almost too late. Somehow, she manages to land unscathed, but the choices she is forced to make in the terrible hours that follow have tragic consequences....

Valerie Rousseau is burning with determination to help free her beloved France from the Nazi regime. Working at the mysterious Bletchley Park, she strikes up an unexpected bond with smart, fiercely loyal Fran Morgan as they spend long days together with their heads bent over maps of France in preparation for the Allied invasion.

When Stefania Carmichael steps into the mysterious world of Bletchley Park, she immediately finds herself signing the Official Secrets Act. In whispers, she is told that she’s been recruited because of her talent for languages. Before the war ripped Europe apart, Stefania was living in Rome, charming everyone she met, and engaged to the man of her dreams, handsome and brave Matteo. And now everything has changed. With secrets swirling around the building, Stefania finds it hard to know who to trust, until she forms a close bond with two other new recruits.

Un tatuaje en la piel puede condenarte o salvarte la vida. Inspirado en una conmovedora historia real. Es 1943 y Ana Kaminski cruza las puertas de hierro de Auschwitz junto a su amiga Ester Pasternak. Cuando llegan ante el oficial, Ana dice que es comadrona y que Ester es su asistente. Pronto se da cuenta de que el destino de muchos niños está en sus manos. Cuando dos oficiales de las SS arrebatan a un bebé de los brazos de su madre para confiarla a una familia alemana, Ana siente un dolor infinito.

Lodz, 1939: Die deutsche Besetzung Polens verändert alles, auch für die Hebamme Ana Kaminski und die jüdische Krankenschwester Ester Pasternak. Beide kämpfen um das Überleben ihrer Familien. Als sie schließlich nach Auschwitz deportiert werden, müssen sie sich einer grausamen Realität stellen: Neugeborene sollen getötet oder für das Lebensborn-Programm der SS verschleppt werden. Doch Ana und Ester leisten Widerstand. Heimlich tätowieren sie Babys mit den Häftlingsnummern ihrer Mütter, um ihre Identität zu bewahren – ein gefährlicher Akt der Hoffnung und Menschlichkeit inmitten des Grauens.

There's always time to help out a stranger...isn't there? Supermarket delivery driver Charlie enjoys his new job, because he doesn't have to spend too long with people, who, he's found, are nothing but trouble. But when he's assigned the Hope Row street, he realises there are a lot of lonely people out there - and for some, he's their only interaction. The supermarket boss tells Charlie he's a driver, not a social worker - but Charlie can't abandon the Hope Row residents and he sets about trying to draw them out of their shells and back into the world.

Bonnie and Stan are soul mates. They met during the Swinging '60s, to the soundtrack of The Beatles and the Merseybeat scene. Now they've grown up and grown old together, had children and grandchildren. They are finally building their dream home when disaster strikes. Stan is running out of time and can't bear the thought of leaving Bonnie alone. Alongside his teenage granddaughter Greya, he forms a plan to find Bonnie a new love of her life. And she must never find out....

December 1941: ‘Pearl Harbor has been bombed.’ My husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, voice shakes as he tells me the devastating news. We both know what this means: America is at war. Eleanor Roosevelt takes a deep breath. This is her third term as First Lady and she knows what it takes to lead her country alongside charming and charismatic Franklin. She’s dedicated to her role as an activist having spent her life working towards a vision of a better America. But the attack on Pearl Harbor shatters everything.

Tasha Ancel, de dieciséis años, se gira para echar un último vistazo al lugar que le ha robado la libertad y la infancia. No sabe cómo ha sobrevivido; la mayoría ha muerto tras las puertas del campo de concentración. Por primera vez en meses, su corazón late con la esperanza de un futuro y de sacar adelante a los niños que ahora se aferran a ella. Las SS arrancaron a Tasha de los brazos de su madre unos días antes de que la deportaran. De ella, solo conserva un mechón de cabello pelirrojo.

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