Postales del Este

In September 1943, the young Ella was taken prisoner to the Auschwitz concentration camp from France. The head of the women's camp, the bloodthirsty SS Maria Mandel, nicknamed the Beast, discovers that her calligraphy is perfect and incorporates her as a copyist in the Women's Orchestra. Thanks to her knowledge of languages, She begins to work in the Kanadá Block where she finds numerous postcards and photographs in the luggage of the deportees, and decides to write their stories on them so that no one will forget who they were. While forming bonds of friendship with the prisoners, surviving the evil of their captors and preventing them from discovering their particular resistance made with the blow of words, a rebellion is brewing between the prisoners that further threatens their lives and that of the man they love, Joska . Almost forty years later, young Bella receives a box full of postcards. They are postcards that your mother wrote when she was in the East. That's what she called them: Postcards from the East. She wanted you to read them in due course. And that time is now. Combining fiction with historical figures such as Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Irma Grese, Rudolf Hoss, Ana Frank or Alma Rosé, Reyes Monforte returns to the genre that has consecrated her as an author. Richly documented and written with passion and emotion, she has signed her most ambitious work: a story about the liberating power of words, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. An exciting story based on true events about memory, love and hope in the midst of the horror of Auschwitz.