After the worldwide success of the bestseller "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" the new book by author Heather MorrisHer beauty saved her life - and became her undoing1942: Cecilia Klein is sixteen years old when she is deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fascinated by her beauty, the camp commander separates her from the other prisoners and regularly abuses her. Cilka quickly learns that her involuntary position of power means survival. But after the liberation of Auschwitz, Cilka is accused of being a collaborator by the Russians and sent to the brutal Workuta prison camp in Siberia. There she faces new and at the same time terribly familiar challenges. She has to care for the sick in the camp under unimaginable conditions. But she also discovers that despite all the misery, there is still room in her heart for love. "The past never reveals its secrets easily. But stories like Cilka's deserve to be told. She was just a little girl, but then became the bravest person Lale Sokolov has ever met." Heather Morris.