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Anca's Story (a YA Holocaust novel) [Kindle Edition]

Saffina DESFORGES
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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Anca's Story



From SAFFINA DESFORGES, international best-selling British author of Sugar & Spice, and the Red crime thriller series (Snow White, Rapunzel), comes Anca's Story.
This is Young Adult fiction, but not as you know it.

"This is not easy reading, either in subject or style. Desforges takes us into a whole new writing style with this first-person telling of the last days of Auschwitz, and through the eyes of a twelve year old child.

Not since Anne Frank's Diary has the Holocaust story been related in such powerful fashion. And so timely, as we approach the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This book should be compulsory reading in schools and colleges."


"I started reading this book 2 days ago, and have now finished, as I couldn't put it down. What a powerful and breathtaking story, it keeps you hooked from the first page."

"I cried reading it and still can't get it out of my head 2 days after finishing it."



Dare you read Anca's Story?



Three young children smuggle themselves into Auschwitz in search for their parents.

If you're looking for werewolves, vampires and faeries and paranormal fantasy, try somewhere else. The only wolf in this story is very real, and the only connection with vampires is the distant Transylvanian mountains in Romania, where this story begins.

If you're looking for light-reading where they all live happily ever after then again, try somewhere else.

If you want serious, no-holds-barred literary fiction set against the background of real historic events then this is for you.

Saffina Desforges made her name writing hard-hitting crime fiction.

This book is about that most horrific crime of all: genocide.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 345 KB
  • Print Length: 241 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 148128309X
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: MWiDP (Mark Williams international Digital Publishing) (10 Mar 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007J9PJRO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #5,565 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate and Powerful Story 5 May 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
After just finishing Anca's story, I am sat heartbroken, not because this story is real, it is of course fiction, but for the fact that the Holocaust happened. This is a story of determination, courage and love of 3 children from 2 different backgrounds, although the story is fiction the Holocaust wasn't, and to read about it and the suffering that happened to many was heart wrenching. The book is beautifully written, with extremely likeable characters. It is not a book I would normally choose but I have been blown away by how powerful a story it is. Well done Saffina Desforges... as I said before... Blown away.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving 14 May 2013
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Very well written book, I would not hesitate to recommend it. It doesn't follow the usual lines that you would expect a holocaust novel to take , but it encapsulates the feeling of the writer perfectly. I could not put it down.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant read! 2 May 2013
By tr4cy
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Brilliant read, a book I really couldn't put down. Well written and really brings home what horrors these people lived through.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving.
Ought to be compulsory reading in schools.

The book opens with the Survivor being mocked by an uninterested young person, but as Anca tells her story, respect for her... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Ginnette Hargreaves-Lees
5.0 out of 5 stars A difficult subject
Having visited Auschwitz myself four years ago this book struck a cord with me. The contents are harrowing and although fiction there are so many truths I'm sure. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Suzy J
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read - Cannot Recommend Enough
Although the subject matter can be extremely harrowing, this is an excellent read - I could not put this down!
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. A. C. Walsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
This was a great read although a sensitive issue, the character in the book was oh so brave, i couldn't put it down it made me very sad in parts but should excpect it in a book of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by JULESK
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
I had to keep reminding myself this story was fictional. The book is so well written it is very believable. I have visited Auschwitz myself and found it very hard to walk round it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rebecca
3.0 out of 5 stars Anca' s Story
A good well written book but I found the events in Auschwitz rather unbelievable. Apart from that it was a good story.
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. Kaye E. Slater
1.0 out of 5 stars Anca's story
I really do find this book difficult to believe. Adults who were fortunate enough to be in a position with food didn't survive, and only 2 adults ever made it out alive from their... Read more
Published 2 months ago by samantha evans
3.0 out of 5 stars Anca's Story
Overly wordy in parts. Shame because the story was very touching but the excessive use of extravagant words detracted from the tale
Published 3 months ago by bobbyb46
1.0 out of 5 stars read true life stories !
This story does not match to the true suffering which the Jewish people underwent , for me it has a hollow ring about Sorry
Published 3 months ago by bill cox
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping story of survival
I have been gripped from the first chapter, a sad story of truth and a child's life from girl to woman without choice.
Published 3 months ago by Zoe
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