Ladies....the first draft for my next novel: The Women of Birkenau-Auschwitz is almost done...This is the first time ever that I have tried writing in the genre of Historical Fiction. I get bored so I have to push the envelope to try something Ive not done before just to see if I can pull it off. What I need in addition to my regular betareaders are 5 new betas who love Historical Fiction. My beta readers are so important to me because in addition to my editors, they really are what helps make my books be as good as they can possibly be. I will post the book blurb for TWOBA below. After reading it, if you are interested in becoming a beta for me, please let me know. The Women of Birkenau-Auschwitz The year is 1943 and Nazi Germany, led by Hitler, has stepped up its quest for world domination and racial purity. Twenty-eight-year-old naturalized American Jew Reizla Kleinman awakes from a dead sleep to the sound of angry voices shouting in German. In the next instant, she is ripped from her bed, and dragged down the stairs by the Gestapo. Herded and packed like animals inside a cattle car, Reizla, without food or water, endures several days on a train amongst decaying bodies. Forty-nine-year-old Antje Himmler, forced into the Nazi party by her father, is assigned to the women’s camp at the Birkenau-Auschwitz Extermination Camp in Poland. As an SS Officer, Antje is required to be at the ramp for selections, standing side by side with Irma Grese and Dr. Joseph Mengele while they nonchalantly choose who lives and who dies. When Dr. Mengele motions for Reizla and an elderly woman to go to the left, which means eminent death for both women in the gas chamber, Antje intervenes and grabs Reizla by the arm, roughly pulling the distraught woman to the other side. As days turn to weeks and then months, nothing prepares Reizla for the unspeakable atrocities committed not only by the Nazi SS women guards, but also by the prisoners themselves. Antje is not the typical German SS Officer but when she sees one of her comrades beating the malnourished and extremely sick Reizla, she is enraged. Using her rank, she informs the guard that Reizla will be working directly for her. Under the pretext of having Reizla as a servant, she secretly nurses the young woman back to health. Over the course of several months, the two women fight to control their deepening feelings for one another. In a world where relationships between Germans and Jews is punishable by death for both, The Women of Birkenau-Auschwitz follows the lives of two women who against all odds, risk everything for love—neither knowing what the future holds or if they will live long enough to see it.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:57:55 +0000
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