A Forbidden Love: A Taboo Auschwitz Romance
Description
Rosemary is an incredibly beautiful and oversexed Jewish woman who arrives at Auschwitz. She is among thousands of prisoners waiting to be separated into two possible lines. One line is for death and the gas chambers. The second line is for prolonged captivity and work details.
On this particular day, the cattle cars have brought in three times as many prisoners as usual. As luck, or bad luck would have it, there is a shortage of guards to do the sorting that day. The result? All arriving Jews are sent to be gassed, and there are to be no exceptions!
Rosemary has the fortune, or misfortune, of catching a senior German guard's eye. The guard is a captain by the name of Karl, a very sadistic and brutal German who takes pleasure in tormenting those that come into his life.
Rosemary, however, seems to have touched his heart, and brought out a softer side to Karl that he has suppressed while at Auschwitz. Rosemary is under no illusions that she must do exactly what her authoritarian captor says or be brutally slaughtered. Her first thought is that he has spared her from being a part of the mass murders that day because he wants to use her and abuse her. But there is some surprising and unexpected chemistry between them.
It is a very strange and dangerous relationship that begins to unfold. Will there be normalcy and tenderness in an otherwise brutal and uncompromising setting? Rosemary's diary begins with her lament over her entire arriving family being ruthlessly killed. She herself relates how she does not want to share in their fate and will do anything to survive. The reader is quickly plunged into the abyss, and the diary reveals how unthinkable relationships can develop on a whim. In the end, such a relationship is not allowed and strictly taboo. And yet stranger things at Auschwitz have from time to time happened. This is undoubtedly one of those things at precisely one of those times.
On this particular day, the cattle cars have brought in three times as many prisoners as usual. As luck, or bad luck would have it, there is a shortage of guards to do the sorting that day. The result? All arriving Jews are sent to be gassed, and there are to be no exceptions!
Rosemary has the fortune, or misfortune, of catching a senior German guard's eye. The guard is a captain by the name of Karl, a very sadistic and brutal German who takes pleasure in tormenting those that come into his life.
Rosemary, however, seems to have touched his heart, and brought out a softer side to Karl that he has suppressed while at Auschwitz. Rosemary is under no illusions that she must do exactly what her authoritarian captor says or be brutally slaughtered. Her first thought is that he has spared her from being a part of the mass murders that day because he wants to use her and abuse her. But there is some surprising and unexpected chemistry between them.
It is a very strange and dangerous relationship that begins to unfold. Will there be normalcy and tenderness in an otherwise brutal and uncompromising setting? Rosemary's diary begins with her lament over her entire arriving family being ruthlessly killed. She herself relates how she does not want to share in their fate and will do anything to survive. The reader is quickly plunged into the abyss, and the diary reveals how unthinkable relationships can develop on a whim. In the end, such a relationship is not allowed and strictly taboo. And yet stranger things at Auschwitz have from time to time happened. This is undoubtedly one of those things at precisely one of those times.
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