Little Bird of Auschwitz Audiobook Libro.fm

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That nickname
Little bird It wasnt mine I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected
Little Bird didnt 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 thirteenyearold Alina Peretti along with her mother and sister was one of thirteen thousand nonJewish 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 familys story Along the way Jacques learns longhidden secrets about his mothers 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

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