The Children’s Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor Audiobook (Free)

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‘We lived on the bunk constructed for four but in moments of overcrowding, it slept seven and sometimes even eight. There is so small space for the berth that whenever among us wanted to simplicity his hip, most of us had to carefully turn in a tangle of hip and legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We develop intimate not merely in body but also at heart because we understood that though we were not born of 1 womb, we’d certainly die jointly.’ about The Children’s Block: Predicated on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor

Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in stop 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children’s block. He spends his days endeavoring to survive while illegally offering lessons to his youthful costs while shielding them as best he can from your impossible horrors of the camp. But attempting to teach the kids is not the just illicit activity that Alex can be involved in. Alex can be keeping a journal…

Originally published mainly because THE PAINTED WALL, Otto Kraus’s autobiographical novel, tells the true story of 500 Jewish children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944.