Born Survivors: Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance and survival - Wendy Holden questions 29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a ski

29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent nine months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of Jewish children and find them homes in the UK

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Born Survivors: Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance and survival - Wendy Holden questions 29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a skiThe Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they