My brother’s tears still left a delicate, clean line in his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it’s really you …

Dov and Yitzhak reside in a small town in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both through the world and from the horrors of the war.

But 1 day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis surprise the homes of the Jewish villagers and tell them they possess one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz.

Six decades later on, in the about The Brothers of Auschwitz security of their living rooms in the home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a pal who will by no means let their tales be forgotten.

Malka Adler’s remarkable biographical book of a family group separated from the Holocaust and their harrowing trip back to each other is dependant on interviews with the brothers she grew up with by the ocean of Galilee. When they decided to tell their story, she was the only person they would speak to.

Told in a poetic design similar to Margaret Atwood, that is a visceral however essential read for those who have discovered power, solace and most importantly, hope, in books like The Choice, The Librarian of Auschwitz as well as the Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Compliment for The Brothers of Auschwitz

‘I sat down and browse this within a few hours, my wife is currently reading it and it is getting tears to her eye’ Amazon . com reviewer

‘The story is so incredible and the writer writes so beautifully that it’s impossible to stay indifferent. I gave the publication to my mother and she called me after she completed crying and telling me just how much she loved it’ Amazon . com reviewer

‘It is a reserve most of us must read, go through to be able to find out … It is harsh, enthralling, earth-shattering, rattling – but we should. And nothing less’ Aliza Ziegler, Editor-in-Chief at Proza Books, Yedioth Ahronoth Posting House

‘Great courage is required to write as Adler does – without softening, without beautifying, without leaving any space to creativity’ Yehudith Rotem, Haaretz newspaper

‘This is a book we aren’t allowed not to read’ Leah Roditi, At Magazine