Beauty saved her life - and condemned her.
In 1942, when Cilce was only sixteen years old, she was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Commander Březinka Schwarzhuber noticed her beautiful long hair and forcibly separated her from the other prisoners. Cilka quickly realized that power — even reluctantly entrusted — meant survival.
After sleeping with the enemy, she was accused of collaboration and sent to Siberia after liberation. But did she have a choice? Where are the moral boundaries for Cilka who came to Auschwitz as a child?
At the prison camp in Siberia, Cilka had to face new and frighteningly familiar threats, including unwanted attention from the guards. Then she was impressed by the doctor, who took her under protection. Cilka started to take care of the sick and took care of them even in brutal conditions.
Cilka was struggling with death on a daily basis, facing horrors, yet finding endless sources of power. And when she was treating prisoner Alexandra, she found that despite all she had experienced, she could find love within her.
Cilka was the bravest man I ever knew.
Lale Sokolov, Tatras of Auschwitz
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