The Girl in the Striped Dress

A completely heartbreaking and gripping World War 2 novel, based on a true story

By: Ellie Midwood

Narrated by: Alison Campbell

Auschwitz, 1942: This unforgettable novel, based on a true story, brings to life history’s most powerful tale of forbidden love. Set within the barbed wire of Auschwitz, a man and a woman fall in love against unimaginable odds. What happens next will restore your faith in humanity and make you believe in hope even where hope should not exist.

“I won’t let anything happen to you,” he whispered, pressing a note into her hand. Her entire body trembled when she read it: I am in love with you.

Helena steps off the cattleztrain onto the frozen grounds of Auschwitz. She has 24 hours to live. Scheduled to be killed tomorrow, she is not even tattooed with a prison number. As the snow falls around her, she shivers, knowing that she has been sentenced to death for a crime she didn’t commit.

When a gray-clad officer marches toward Helena and pulls her away, she fears the worst. Instead, he tells her that it’s one of the guard’s birthdays and orders her to serenade him.

Inside the SS barracks the air is warm, thick with cigarette smoke and boisterous conversation. After she sings to the guard, Franz, he presses a piece of cake into her hands - the first thing she has eaten in days. On the spot, he orders her life to be saved, forever changing the course of her fate.

What follows is a love story that was forbidden, that should have been impossible, and yet saved both of their lives - and hundreds of others - in more ways than one.

Fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice, and The Orphan Train will be utterly entranced. This completely heartbreaking yet beautifully hopeful novel shows that love can survive anything and grow anywhere.

This book was previously published as Auschwitz Syndrome.

©2021 Ellie Midwood (P)2021 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Good comes from evil

Wow! This book was amazing and I could NOT put it down. At first, I wondered about Helena and Franz. I wondered what his motive was. But as I read, I quickly learned what they were. Although one doesn't typically think a story about the holocaust could renew one's faith in humanity, I learned that it actually can. Ms. Midwood does that with this book. Very well developed characters, a complex and heart wrenching storyline, this book is a page turner.

Excellent story

This book kept me wondering g what would happen next. Would listen again too.

The girl in the striped dress

Great book to get the feeling as well as the history of what the Jews and many others went through on a daily basis. I wish our young people would read these books so they knew never to let anything like that happen again.

Very moving

Excellent story and paralleled with history. The description of the camps were moving without being over graphic.

Well done!

So well written, so well told, bravo over and over again. My oh my, the research that must have gone into this novel. Again, BRAVO! Ten ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!