Snatched from a town market. Measured for Aryan blood. Two Polish sisters torn apart by a brutal regime.

Poland, 1944: Twelve-year-old Marta and her ten-year-old sister Joanna are out shopping for food when their lives are shattered in an instant. Snatched by Nazi soldiers and forced into an army truck, they are transported to a chilling facility where children are tested to see if they possess “Aryan blood”.

Because Marta has blonde hair and blue eyes, she is deemed valuable to the Reich. But her younger sister is not.

Torn from Joanna’s arms and sent to a chilly dormitory alone, Marta’s only crumb of comfort is a kind German nurse. As the war rages on, Marta must survive the strict German youth camps and cling to a desperate hope that she will one day find her way back to Poland—and back to the sister she was forced to leave behind.

An absolutely devastating, unputdownable Holocaust story of family, resilience, and survival, perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Orphan List.

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