Cilka's Journey

By: Heather Morris

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

"Louise Brealey is an excellent reader who gives Cilka a thoughtful, sympathetic voice." (Jersey's Best)

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.

Her beauty saved her - and condemned her.

Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?

In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.

Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.

From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit - and the will we have to survive.

©2019 Heather Morris (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Worth Your Time!

Excellent story with great character development... You really feel like you know all of them. The story gives you a better understanding of how their lives were after WW II in the Siberian camp. Silca was clearly a strong person who regularly put others’ needs above her own. The book is definitely worth a listen! Also, make sure to listen to Heather Morris’s first book called The Tattooist of Auschwitz... It’s even more powerful than this. Td

The world needs more of these books the young adults the younger generation especially

If more people would read these kinds of books to understand what people went through and really took it to heart and not worry so much about what Christopher Columbus did which I thought was a good thing anyways then people wouldn’t want this kind of stuff to happen again and wouldn’t want socialism wouldn’t want communism they would want freedom and with freedom comes making your own choices

Fantastic follow up

Great follow up to the tattooist of Auschwitz’s. I loved the character development and follow through.

Amazing

I was able to learn more about this this time in history and gain a better understanding about what happened.

Fabulous yet horrific… such a nasty time in history

I felt so many emotions while reading this novel. Mainly how incredibly strong the human spirit can be to have survived such treacherous treatment by other moronic humans! Narration was superb, character development was well done.
Highly recommend!