Paper Hearts

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Hope and friendship forged inside Auschwitz

This is the kind of story that stays with you because it finds tenderness and courage in an unimaginably cruel place. The friendship between Fania and Zlatka gives the book its heartbeat, and the small paper heart becomes a powerful symbol of resistance, love, and survival. If you connect with true stories that feel intimate, human, and quietly devastating, this will likely leave a deep impression.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Paper Hearts

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ISBN: 9781481439848
Authors: Meg Wiviott
Date of Publication: 2016-09-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Poetry
Goodreads rating: 4.22
(rated by 2743 readers)

Description

A forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this beautifully told true story about brave young women who refused to be victims and walked out of Auschwitz with their heads unbowed (School Library Journal). An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card in Auschwitz was all of those things. But that is what Zlatka did, in 1944, for her best friend, Fania. She stole and bartered for paper and scissors, secretly creating an origami heart. Then she passed it to every girl at the work tables to sign with their hopes and wishes for happiness, for love, and most of all—for freedom. Fania knew what that heart meant, for herself and all the other girls. And she kept it hidden, through the bitter days in the camp and through the death marches. She kept it always. This novel is based on the true story of Fania and Zlatka, the story of the bond that helped them both to hope for the best in the face of the worst. Their heart is one of the few objects created in Auschwitz, and can be seen today in the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.
 

Hope and friendship forged inside Auschwitz

This is the kind of story that stays with you because it finds tenderness and courage in an unimaginably cruel place. The friendship between Fania and Zlatka gives the book its heartbeat, and the small paper heart becomes a powerful symbol of resistance, love, and survival. If you connect with true stories that feel intimate, human, and quietly devastating, this will likely leave a deep impression.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.