Book Review: The Librarian of Auschwitz
February 21, 2026
This book gives a new perspective on life behind the gates with different voices and experiences being told within the pages.
Lover of the written word and its ability to take the reader to places far and wide, Claude is a devout follower of literature in all its colour. His penchant for a jolly good story will often find him browsing fiction in translation, travel , memoir and history…the more obscure, the better. He is a sucker for a great cover, never shy of a challenge, and forever in search of a book somewhere on the border of here and there.
This book gives a new perspective on life behind the gates with different voices and experiences being told within the pages.
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