Love in Auschwitz

Audiobook Love in Auschwitz, by Jana Vrzalová, read by Klára Oltová, directed by Helena Rytířová. WAS IT REALLY LOVE BEHIND BARBED WIRE OR A FIGHT FOR LIFE AT ANY COST? A novel based on a true story from the Auschwitz concentration camp A Slovak Jewish woman, Helena Citronová, and SS member Franz Wunsch. A theme reminiscent of Shakespeare's drama. Forbidden love: He was supposed to send her to the gas chamber, but he fell in love with her, Sincere love, It wasn't love - it's not only under these headlines that news about the relationship of these two people is circulating on social networks. What was he really like? Sincere, loving, or was it Helen's desperate fight for her life? The author draws on contemporary materials, eyewitness accounts of those tragic events, and court records from the post-war trial of Franz Wunsch. With the protagonist, we return to a time when the existence or non-existence of individuals and entire nations was at stake. The aim is to convey to the readers the atmosphere, the spirit of a tragic time, the Nazi cruelty, and to leave it to the readers themselves to reflect on what they would have done in the place of young Helena. Love in Auschwitz is a novel inspired by the turbulent life story of Helena Citronová, Auschwitz prisoner no. 1971. A girl who experienced racial discrimination, the Holocaust. It is complemented by period photographs and documents, many of which are presented to the public for the first time. JANA VRZALOVÁ PhDr. Jana Vrzalová - journalist, translator and editor who has worked for years for leading Czech and Slovak newspapers, magazines and institutions, including the Lidice Memorial. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Top Secret! She is active in the Nonfiction Writers Club, and was its president from 2014-2019. In addition, she is a laureate of the Miroslav Ivanov Prize for Journalism (2013). In the same year, the Association of Legionary Tradition Bearers awarded her the Czech Patriot Award in the category of journalism for promoting national pride and national memory. The Lidice Memorial awarded her work with a Commemorative Medal. In 2018, she won the main prize in the Egon Ervin Kisch International Literary Competition for her book Betrothed to Death. In 2021 she received the Miroslav Ivanov Award for lifetime achievement in journalism. She is the author of the novel Love in Auschwitz, based on a true story from the Auschwitz concentration camp. CLARA OLTOVÁ After high school she was accepted to the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, from which she graduated in 1998. Immediately after her studies she won an audition for the Dlouhá Theatre, to which she has remained loyal ever since. For her role of Kristýna Fialová in Our Furiants she won the award for the best female performance at the GRAND Festival of Laughter in Pardubice.  She proved to the audience and professional critics that she also has a talent for character roles (Irina Arkadina in The Seagull, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth). From film we recall Bouquet or A Novel for Women.