Genre: Book
Grade: A
Notable People: Heather Morris
Title: “Cilka’s Journey”
Review: The follow up book to Morris’s award winning concentration camp story, “The Taoists of Auschwitz. This book is hard to put down. Cilka was introduced in the first book and is based on a real person and real events that took a 16-year-old girl from the horrors of Auschwitz to the equally atrocious Russian Siberian Gulag work camps. A young woman who was painted a traitor after the war, who in actuality saved more lives than can be counted. A touching, horrific, and inspiring story of brutality, perseverance and rising above. A book not to be missed.