Three Sisters

This is a story based off real sisters from Slovakia who were imprisoned at Auschwitz and Birkenau. It’s their journey of trying to keep a promise to their father when they were young, to always stay together no matter what, because together they would be strong. And they survived 3 years in a death camp and the death march at the end to be together and make new lives for themselves. It’s pretty heartbreaking and inspiring all at once. Heartbreaking, because I can’t wrap my mind around how cruel normal people can be–how cruel they were! When I see the cruelty from normal people on social media platforms today, it makes me cringe to think our society could become just as cruel as the Nazis were to the Jews and those who sympathized with them. Stories like this make me step back and take note of my own behavior, to see if I am becoming calloused at all or willing to look away when others are bullied in any manner. I hope not to be. This is why I loved this story–it’s a true tale from history to warn us so we don’t make the same mistakes others did in the past.

Great read-page turner. It’s historical fiction based on a true story. I did go and research the sisters for their actual story and the novel is close. Four stars only because I would have preferred non-fiction, but that’s me.

Dear author, I dont know if you read these reviews or if you could even read all of them. I have read 3 of your books now. The tattooist or auschwitz, cilkas Journey, and now the three sisters. They are all beautiful and terrible stories about beautiful people and horrible things happening in their lives. I wish I could meet you and the people from these stories. I have felt their stories from your words in my heart. I shall always carry them with me. I wish I was better with words to express the horror, love, sadness, and joy that I experience alongside them in this story. I cried and laughed with them. Thank you for a truly wonderful books author. Thank you for capturing their stories and making them known. It was an honor to read them and to know them even by a small amount. Because I am sure they lived long lives. Thank you

By reading the Afterwards in this book you find out that these were real people (pictures included), with real situations, from happy times at home with Mumma and Grandfather Yitzchak to dangerous and treacherous times when Cibi, Magda and Livi are sent to the Nazi camps Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book should be required reading so that we never forget, nor allow it to happen again: how inhumane we can be to one another. Told in Three parts: The Promise, The Gates of Hell and The Promised Land the three sisters tell of their life and times from teenagers to great-grandmothers. I can’t remember crying this much while reading one book. So poignant and haunting that I am confident I shall remember this book forever. Slovakian, Jewish sisters Magda and Livi recount to the author Heather Morris what they endured and the impact their experiences had on their lives. The Meller mantra: strength and hope, which is how the girls survived! The essence of the book: Cibi tells her sisters, “We are all survivors. We have all been beaten, starved and tortured, but look at us, we’re still moving, still alive.” Their survival was their justice and retribution toward the Nazis. If you would like to read about true events during a tumultuous period of our history, read and enjoy this book. I was invited and I volunteered to review an ARC of this book through NetGalley. I would give it 10 stars if I could.

This was the best book I've ever read

Nice story. Not sure how much was true

Such a good book. Love historical fiction and this one I could not put down. Heartbreaking and inspiring. You want to read this!

I enjoyed learning about the true experiences and the courage etc. of the sisters and their family; I have read a lot books about this era. My issue is that it often seemed to be aimed at “young adults” in terms of the reading level and, more, the way so much of these terrible times and actions (e.g., concentration camp related and even more the founding of Israel) were “sanitized” to such an extent to make it much too unrealistic and almost naive. As a result, it was a chore to finish the book.