Three Sisters: A Novel

Heather Morris

Oct 2021 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story.

Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. Livia, Magda, and Cibi have clung together, nearly died from starvation and overwork, and the brutal whims of the guards in this place of horror. But now, the allies are closing in and the sisters have one last hurdle to face: the death march from Auschwitz, as the Nazis try to erase any evidence of the prisoners held there. Due to a last minute stroke of luck, the three of them are able to escape formation and hide in the woods for days before being rescued.

And this is where the story begins. From there, the three sisters travel to Israel, to their new home, but the battle for freedom takes on new forms. Livia, Magda, and Cibi must face the ghosts of their past--and some secrets that they have kept from each other--to find true peace and happiness.

Inspired by a true story, and with events that overlap with those of Lale, Gita, and Cilka, The Three Sisters will hold a place in readers' hearts and minds as they experience what true courage really is.

Ratings and reviews

Three Sisters is a wonderfully powerful book. It focuses on three sisters who made a promise to their father to watch out for each other always. There are many books about the concentration camps in WWII but this is the first book I’ve read that told the story after WWII. As I read books set in this time period I always look for hints from other books and I find many. It is because many books are based on actual events, events we should never forget. I loved reading every word of this book because of the sisters strength during and after the war.

Three Sisters by Heather Morris is a vivid account of three young Slovakian sisters who promise their dying father always to stay together. Cibi, the oldest at age nineteen, follows her youngest sister Livia, age fourteen when she reports for work by the Germans. Meanwhile, the middle sister Madga is in the hospital fighting off a fever and then returns home to care for her mother and grandfather until the German's rounded up all the Jews regardless of age and sent them all off to Auschwitz. After my own father's death, I needed to know more information about my Austrian-Hungarian heritage. I could only trace my father's mother's side of the family back to my great grandparents. On my father's father's side, only my grandfather's mother. My father told us stories about his mom were hiding and feeding the Jewish neighbors. I started reading about what the Germans did not only to the Jewish people but also to the Roma's, which broke my heart. I thought that reading a book about sisters would be interesting. Little did I know that this was an actual account of their lives at Auschwitz and beyond. The horrors that the sisters endured during this time are unspeakable. I found myself crying. Their strength in living life afterward is uplifting that they could adjust and find themselves in loving relationships; having a family of their own is unfathomable yet hopeful. I loved seeing the actual photographs of the three remarkable sisters and their families. Thank you for telling their story, and let's pray that this atrocity will never happen again in our lifetime.

Amazing book of courage and what Love can get you through

About the author

HEATHER MORRIS lives in Australia. While working in a hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the US. In 2003, Heather met a gentleman, Lale Sokolov, who ‘might have a story worth telling’. Lale entrusted the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her. Heather originally wrote his story as a screenplay – before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.