For Adults
🏆 WIN 🏆 We are delighted to be offering 5 sets of 5 copies of Wendy Holden’s extraordinary novel to reading groups in the UK. It’s the perfect inspiring and moving book club read, all based on a real story. Find out more below…
🦋 About the book 🦋
Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts…
At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch.
But being a teacher in such a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Whether it was begging the SS for better provisions, or hiding his homosexuality from his persecutors, he risked his life every day for one thing: to protect the children from the mortal danger they all faced.
Time is running out for Fredy and the hundreds of children in his care. Can he find a way to teach them the one lesson they really need to know: how to survive?
From the bestselling author of Born Survivors, comes an assiduously researched and powerful new novel. Drawn from archives and survivor testimonies, historian and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch: The Teacher of Auschwitz.
💌 READERS LOVE THE TEACHER OF AUSCHWITZ 💌
“Could not put this book down, wonderfully descriptive and well written… It’s a book that will stay with you, reminding you of the profound strength of the human spirit.”
“I read this in two days. A story full of heartbreak, terror, fear, hope. It brought out every emotion, even more so knowing that this was a true story.”
“A story that should be read and never forgotten.”
“Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measures.”
“It was a privilege to read about what an inspiring person he was. Truly an amazingly well-researched book.”
📚 About the offer 📚
If you fancy winning one of five sets of five copies of The Teacher of Auschwitz for your Book Club, please email tamara.douthwaite@bonnierbooks.co.uk with the subject header ‘Reading Agency – Teacher of Auschwitz’ and include the following:
- Name of your reading group
- Age of group members
- Name of local library authority or school (if applicable)
- Name of your main group contact (your name)
- Email address of main group contact (this is so that we can contact you on whether your pitch is successful or not)
- Postal address for the books
- Tell us more about your group (how often you meet, the type of books you like to read etc.)
- Please tell us why your group would like to take part in this offer.
- If your group is selected, how will you promote excitement about this book with your group?
- Is your group happy to read, discuss and review the book?
- Will you be able to share some images with your group (these can be without faces), of your display or your reviews on social media?
The deadline is 3rd July.
The books will be delivered to you by the end of July and you will have six weeks after you receive the book to send back individual reviews. We anonymise your applications and share with the
publisher to help select the clubs.
Please only apply if you will be able to send the club’s feedback six weeks after receiving books. If you do not send in feedback in return for the free books you will not be able to apply for other opportunities.
We also welcome photos and screengrabs of any social media posts.
