More serious books

If you don't like books about Holocaust, please stop reading now.

I know that these books are way different than the books I've posted about earlier. But I really like to read these stories about survivors. I don't know why I like these books; maybe because I'm still trying to understand how this could happen. Maybe because I want to know that there were survivors; that you can survive from something that was meant to destroy you. I like to believe that there is always hope. I like to believe that hope is stronger than fear. I once saw this post about hope that stated H.O.P.E means hold on, pain ends. I would like to believe that it's true.

The first book about Auschwitz I read was Playing For Time by Fania Fénelon. I was something like fourteen or fifteen years old. I read it again few years later, but haven't read it since. I think I'll reread it soon. Maybe it feels different now than it felt then. 

Lately I've read a lot of other books about Holocaust. The last book I finished was Born Survivors by Wendy Holden. It was about three women who were pregnant while climbing on a train that took them to Auschwitz. The book tells how these women survive through the next weeks and months with trying to keep their pregnancies secret. The book was a bit disoriented or at least it felt like that. It went back and fort too much for my liking, but it was definitely worth of reading!

I have also read book about Sonderkommando. They were those men who worked inside gas chambers. It was a really brutal book. 

I read also Last Stop Auschwitz by Eddy De Wind. That's the only book that is written inside of concentration camp. It was a really touching book. I think this book was originally published decades ago, but was published just now in English. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Because of Mr. De Wind's book I was interested of Block 10 and it's women. That's why I chose to read a book about these women. Hans-Joachmin Lang wrote a book about these women. I'm not sure if this book is translated in English. 

I have few other books about Auschwitz in my TBR pile. I have been avoiding The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, because I am really sure it will break my heart in a million pieces. But I have now that book in my shelf, so the time has finally to come to read this book. Also The Pharmacist of Auschwitz. The Untold Story. is waiting in my shelf. I want to read Cilka's Story, too. I liked the first book of the series. I understand why some people didn't like it, but for me it was a good reading experience.

I want to believe that we can do better now. I believe that we're all equal. And I want to believe that my kids can grow up and live in a better world; where no one needs to be afraid because they are who they are. Spread the love, not the hate. And hold on, because there has to be a time when pain ends.