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NECROPOLIS BY BORIS PAHOR PUBLISHED BY CANONGATE BOOKS THE NINE HUNDRED BY HEATHER DUNE MACADAM, CAROLINE MOOREHEAD PUBLISHED BY HODDER AND STOUGHTON LAST STOP AUSCHWITZ BY EDDY DE WIND PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and NatzweilerStruthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor’s stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps - and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. They believed they were going to work in a factory for a few months, but were in fact sent to almost certain death. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women’s history. Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was sent to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at a labour camp in the Netherlands. As the end of the war approached, the last Nazis fled, taking many prisoners with them, including Friedel. Eddy hid and stayed behind. Finding a notebook and pencil, he began to write with furious energy about his experiences. Thought to be the only complete book written within Auschwitz itself, it will linger with you long after the final page has been turned.