The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry av Lidia Maksymowicz

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<p><b>The Number 1 International Bestseller.<br><br>The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele¿s evil experiments. Lidia made headlines in 2021 when Pope Francis kissed her tattoo.</b><br><br>Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ¿crime¿ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Once there, Lidia was picked by Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children¿s block. It was here that she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity.<br><br>By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatised to feel emotion, she