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The Number 1 International Bestseller

The heartbreaking inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengeles evil experiments With a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis

Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in AuschwitzBirkenau with her mother grandparents and foster brother They were from Belarus their crime that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the childrens block where 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

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 was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home Then in 1962 she discovered that her birth parents were still alive in the USSR and wanted her back Lidia was faced with an agonising choice

The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry is powerful moving and ultimately hopeful as Lidia comes to terms with the past and finds the strength to share her story even making headlines when she meets Pope Francis who kisses her tattoo Above all she refuses to hate those who hurt her so badly saying Hate only brings more hate Love on the other hand has the power to redeem