Auschwitz 'romance' books?!
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dimity_blueIs this a thing now?
Note: The author claims these were all true events.
I presume including an SS female guard named Leah.
Barbed Wire Beauty Pageant.
Leah is a brand new SS girl assigned as a female guard at the extermination camp of Auschwitz. She strikes terror into the hearts of all the female prisoners. Leah desperately wants to become romantically involved with a German guard named Eric. Leah, however, becomes furious and full of jealous rage because all the German guards, particularly her precious Eric, seemed preoccupied with three sensational looking female prisoners.
A Forbidden Love: A Taboo Auschwitz Romance.
Rosemary is an incredibly beautiful and oversexed Jewish woman who arrives at Auschwitz.
The author has a series of 16 or so books, supposedly translated from diaries kept by Auschwitz inmates and translated from Polish into English. The 'books' range from 14 - 30 pages long and claim to be true.
I *really* don't think they are.
There's also an "excerpts from the diary of" that's 157 pages long.
This bit is from the first book's blurb:
Marg records everything as it happens, then is able to hide the story in a stolen envelope and mix it in with some military mail.
Amy (the so-called author of the books) translates the story into English from it's original broken and stunted German. Some parts that were far too nasty for human comprehension were left out, which doesn't make the account any more palatable or any less true.
One can only hope that any such horrors will never be perpetrated upon human beings in captivity ever again.
*side-eyes for infinity* I can't imagine how offended survivors of the concentration camps would be at this drek.
ETA: I've just found this 'author description':
As for the author, Amy Cravitz is a seventy-two year old widowed author living in Switzerland with her two children and three dogs.
She was only a month old newborn when the Holocaust took place. She had been stuffed into a cattle car with hundreds of other condemned Jews. While in that cattle car, her parents, twin sibling brothers, grand parents and uncle were made to stand for hours squished like sardines.
When they did finally emerge at Auschwitz into the mud and the pouring rain, both of Amy's five year old twin siblings were seized by Joseph Mengele and marched to the camp hospital to be experimented on. When Amy's parents confronted Mengele and protested over why they were being taken, a group of guards were summoned to beat them both to death.
The guards then placed the remainder of Amy's family into the "death line." From there they were immediately sent off to the notorious 'showers' to be gassed.
A German Captain, who supervised his guards doing the beating, had a wife back home who was desperate to have a baby and couldn't. And so the captain had been on the lookout for any newborns, and he thought that the baby Amy was very cute.
The guard seized the baby then smuggled it out of the camp. He and his wife raised Amy as their own. Her assigned name growing up was Helena Hess.
On his death bed, the step father guard revealed to Amy her true identity, admitting that his boss, the surgeon Joseph Mengele, in a fit of rage had seized her five year old twin brothers for experimentation, then ordered her interfering parents stomped to death.
Amy quickly re-invented herself as an Auschwitz holocaust survivor, adopted her true Jewish faith, and began searching for diaries and stories of Holocaust victims. Amy has dedicated her life to uncovering the true stories of those brutalized and destroyed by the Nazi regime at Auschwitz.
Although developing a hatred for her adopting parents, Amy realizes that without her step father's intervention, she never would have made it out of Auschwitz alive. She would most certainly have been placed with the rest of her family that day into the death line to be gassed and incinerated.
~~~
I wonder how long it took her to come up with that cover story?
Note: The author claims these were all true events.
I presume including an SS female guard named Leah.
Barbed Wire Beauty Pageant.
Leah is a brand new SS girl assigned as a female guard at the extermination camp of Auschwitz. She strikes terror into the hearts of all the female prisoners. Leah desperately wants to become romantically involved with a German guard named Eric. Leah, however, becomes furious and full of jealous rage because all the German guards, particularly her precious Eric, seemed preoccupied with three sensational looking female prisoners.
A Forbidden Love: A Taboo Auschwitz Romance.
Rosemary is an incredibly beautiful and oversexed Jewish woman who arrives at Auschwitz.
The author has a series of 16 or so books, supposedly translated from diaries kept by Auschwitz inmates and translated from Polish into English. The 'books' range from 14 - 30 pages long and claim to be true.
I *really* don't think they are.
There's also an "excerpts from the diary of" that's 157 pages long.
This bit is from the first book's blurb:
Marg records everything as it happens, then is able to hide the story in a stolen envelope and mix it in with some military mail.
Amy (the so-called author of the books) translates the story into English from it's original broken and stunted German. Some parts that were far too nasty for human comprehension were left out, which doesn't make the account any more palatable or any less true.
One can only hope that any such horrors will never be perpetrated upon human beings in captivity ever again.
*side-eyes for infinity* I can't imagine how offended survivors of the concentration camps would be at this drek.
ETA: I've just found this 'author description':
As for the author, Amy Cravitz is a seventy-two year old widowed author living in Switzerland with her two children and three dogs.
She was only a month old newborn when the Holocaust took place. She had been stuffed into a cattle car with hundreds of other condemned Jews. While in that cattle car, her parents, twin sibling brothers, grand parents and uncle were made to stand for hours squished like sardines.
When they did finally emerge at Auschwitz into the mud and the pouring rain, both of Amy's five year old twin siblings were seized by Joseph Mengele and marched to the camp hospital to be experimented on. When Amy's parents confronted Mengele and protested over why they were being taken, a group of guards were summoned to beat them both to death.
The guards then placed the remainder of Amy's family into the "death line." From there they were immediately sent off to the notorious 'showers' to be gassed.
A German Captain, who supervised his guards doing the beating, had a wife back home who was desperate to have a baby and couldn't. And so the captain had been on the lookout for any newborns, and he thought that the baby Amy was very cute.
The guard seized the baby then smuggled it out of the camp. He and his wife raised Amy as their own. Her assigned name growing up was Helena Hess.
On his death bed, the step father guard revealed to Amy her true identity, admitting that his boss, the surgeon Joseph Mengele, in a fit of rage had seized her five year old twin brothers for experimentation, then ordered her interfering parents stomped to death.
Amy quickly re-invented herself as an Auschwitz holocaust survivor, adopted her true Jewish faith, and began searching for diaries and stories of Holocaust victims. Amy has dedicated her life to uncovering the true stories of those brutalized and destroyed by the Nazi regime at Auschwitz.
Although developing a hatred for her adopting parents, Amy realizes that without her step father's intervention, she never would have made it out of Auschwitz alive. She would most certainly have been placed with the rest of her family that day into the death line to be gassed and incinerated.
~~~
I wonder how long it took her to come up with that cover story?
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Date: 2017-04-03 11:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-03 12:09 pm (UTC)Oh, apparently these are all true stories.
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Date: 2017-04-03 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-03 04:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-04-03 12:25 pm (UTC)I mean, maybe it's true. Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. But I'm with you, very likely a cover story so she can say "it's okay, I'm totes Jewish!"
Also, I really, really doubt a Nazi would raise a Jewish baby because she "looked cute."
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Date: 2017-04-03 01:21 pm (UTC)LOL! "But I'm completely trustworthy!"
Also, I really, really doubt a Nazi would raise a Jewish baby because she "looked cute."
I remember reading a few kids were saved because they didn't look Jewish (were blond/blue eyed) but they were all a few years old. A one month old might not even keep those blue eyes.
It's not the only red flag for me. Her twin siblings were taken to be experimented on by Mengele and her parents confronted him. People arriving at the camps didn't know about Mengele.
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Date: 2017-04-03 12:59 pm (UTC)The whole concept makes me squirm, and the excuses for writing it make me squirm even more. Ick.
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Date: 2017-04-03 04:04 pm (UTC)Good Lord - human/dinosaur porn? Whhhyyyyyy?
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Date: 2017-04-03 07:32 pm (UTC)As for human/dinosaur porn... I have no idea! I found it when I was searching Amazon for dinosaur books. It's the sort of thing that leaves one running for the eye bleach.
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Date: 2017-04-04 10:35 am (UTC)It looks like the author stopped publishing at the end of last year. No one left reviews on the romances so I wonder if anyone bought them at all.
I can't believe anyone thought it was acceptable to write romance novels about SS guards and concentration camp inmates.
Oh, and what 72 year old German woman uses the phrase "took a fancy to"?
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Date: 2017-04-05 08:16 pm (UTC)