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Little Bird of Auschwitz

How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family

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Little Bird of Auschwitz

By: Jacques Peretti
Narrated by: Alina Peretti, Jacques Peretti
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 'That nickname . . .'
'"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected.
"Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'

As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.

In the few last months of the Second World War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz. Her experiences there cast a shadow over the rest of her life.

Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her family's story. Along the way, Jacques learns long-hidden secrets about his mother's family. He gains an understanding of his mother through retracing her past, learning more about the woman who would never let him call her 'Mum'.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2022 Jacques Peretti 20th Century Military Modern War
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loved this book so much!!! would recommend. I think I would buy a paper copy also to re read it.

amazing!

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I loved this book - the incredible true story of survival. The book hoes from now during covid lockdown to the distant past to the Nazis invading Hungary and Poland - really unbelievable how anyone survived.

incredible

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This book is very inspiring, triumph over over adversity. My life seems very t am e in comparison

You only have onelife

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It would be impossible not to be gripped by this real account of a family torn apart by the atrocities of war, and their experiences in Warsaw during the Polish Uprising and then in Auschwitz.

Tragic, and brutal, but lovingly told, Jacques Peretti shares, with recollections from his mother, how his family - or some members at least - survived against all the odds, with an attitude of determination and belief that life is essentially good.
This beautifully crafted account will stay with me throughout the whole of my life.

A story of unbelievable resilience, beautifully told by an incredible author.

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It must be the most amazing thing to discover later in life that your mother, when she was younger, had lived a life the best novelists could not make up. It's the detail in the memories that make you realise this story is not a fiction, and the privilege of hearing first hand witness to major events in 20th century history, and not having to live through them yourself, is amazing.
This is a terrific book telling a story that was hidden for years but deserves to be heard. Undoubtedly a labour of love, in every sense, it is wonderful to hear it read by the author who is telling you, personally, the story he discovered of an amazing family history only recently discovered. I couldn't thank him more for introducing them to me

Amazing story...and true!!!

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