LOVERS IN AUSCHWITZ: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld (WH Allen, $40)
“David Wisnia didn’t realise it at the time, but he owed his life to Spitzer’s access to gas chamber lists.
He was 17; she was 25. They fell for each other and met secretly for nearly a year before going their separate ways. It might, in another decade, have been a sweet but otherwise unremarkable interlude in two young lives, except for the setting. And the stakes. Already, their survival made them remarkable.
Their trysts took place in a hidden nest
