Three Sisters

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I promise too, Father. I promise to look after my sisters—I won’t let anyone hurt them, you know that.” Masha has to be pulled, sobbing, from Vershinin's arms, but her husband compassionately asks that they start again. Olga has reluctantly accepted the position of permanent headmistress of the school where she teaches and is moving out. She is taking Anfisa with her, rescuing the elderly woman from Natasha. And Magda, beautiful, gentle Magda, how did she get to be five so fast? He worries her sweet nature will make her vulnerable to being hurt and used by others. Her big blue eyes gaze at him and he feels her love, her understanding of his precarious health. He sees in her a maturity beyond her years, a compassion she has inherited from her mother and grandmother, and a fierce desire to care for others.

Three Sisters is the final book in The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy. I read the first and second and have been looking forward to where the story would go next. From international bestselling author Heather Morris comes the breathtaking conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy. Harold Bloom (31 October 2003). Genius (Reprinted.). Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0446691291. A heartbreaking story of love and survival based on the incredible true story of the Meller sisters, as told to Heather Morris. One evening in February, everyone is coming to the house for a Carnival party. Masha and Vershinin arrive together; they have begun an affair. Irina and Tuzenbakh also arrive together, since Tuzenbakh walks Irina home each day from her job at the Telegraph Office. Irina hates her job and can’t wait to move to Moscow in June. Tuzenbakh and Vershinin discuss the meaning of life and happiness, Vershinin arguing that people must strive for eventual progress, even if they don’t live to see it. When it becomes clear that Natasha has canceled the night’s entertainment without consulting anyone, Andrey and Chebutykin go off to play cards, and Natasha sneaks off for a carriage ride with Protopopov, the head of the District Council.In this book we meet three sisters who are just teenagers when the Nazis start rounding up people to send to concentration camps. Livia is the youngest, just fifteen when she?s sent to the formidable Auschwitz, and is followed by her protective older sister Cibi who is determined to stay together no matter what. Magda goes into hiding with their mother and grandfather, relying on the kindness of neighbours and surviving in the forest to elude capture. Cibi and Magda exchange a glance. Livi looks from sister to sister to father, knowing that something solemn has been agreed, but with little idea of what it means. The tiny bedroom contains two beds: one in which Chaya sleeps with her youngest, Livi; and the other, which Magda shares with their older sister, Cibi, when she is home. A large cabinet takes up one wall, cluttered with the small, personal possessions of the four women of the house. Taking pride of place: the cut-glass perfume atomizer with its emerald green tie and tassel, and next to it a grainy photograph. A handsome man sits on a simple chair, a toddler on one knee, an older girl on the other. Another girl, older yet, stands to his left. On his right is the girls’ mother, her hand resting on her husband’s shoulder. Mother and daughters wear white lacy dresses and together they are a picture-perfect family, or, at least, they were. Chaya merely nods, now desperate for him to tell her what he needs to say. The years since the war broke out have changed her: her once smooth brow is lined, and she is so thin her dresses hang off her like wet laundry.

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In 2020 an adaptation of the play by Inua Ellams, set in Owerri, Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War between 1967 and 1970, was staged at the Lyttelton Theatre in London. The author brings us into the day-to-day horrors of Auschwitz and Birkenau while showing how the love of family and the will to survive can bring about remarkable resiliency. This is a not a new theme and other books have heartbreakingly taken readers into the depths of the concentration camps. But knowing this is a true story (with some fictional elements) makes it all the more impactful. And as hard it is to read of the suffering, it is also uplifting to learn of life after the war filled with children and grandchildren. It is painful, however, to think of all the children and grandchildren who were never born because so many did not survive. Books like Three Sisters keep us remembering this.