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A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller

Renee Salt, Kate Thompson

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c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Memoirs, True war & combat stories, The Holocaust, War crimes

The beautiful, emotional and true story of a mother and daughter's love and their strength to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on.
Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper.
'Do not cry when I die.'

'Quite simply the most important book you will read this year' Hazel Gaynor
'An extraordinary read' Lorraine Kelly
'Deeply moving' Daily Mail

From invasion to liberation, September 1939 to April 1945, as Renee was marched from ghetto to camp, there was one constant. One hand that clutched hers - her mother's. Every day for nearly six years, mother and daughter were bound together in hell. From Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen-Belsen, they were a powerful source of solace and hope for one another.

The strength of Sala's love gave them both something fragile yet beautiful to cling to in an ugly, depraved world. It was her mother who hid Renee, lied to the SS, went right when she was directed left - whose small actions had life-saving consequences. Now, for Renee, the need to share has finally overcome the desire to forget.

A Mother's Promise is a love letter to a mother eighty years in the making.

*****

'Will stay with me for a long time... A beautiful account, so movingly told' Anna Stuart

'Powerful, poignant, and deeply important. A must-read' Elizabeth Bellak

'This is a story the world needs to know' Madeline Martin

'This book travels to the very heart of existence' Joshua Levine

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