Little Bird of Auschwitz

''That nickname . . .''''"Little bird." It wasn''t mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn''t mean anything. It was a trick. There w ...

''That nickname . . .''''"Little bird." It wasn''t mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn''t mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.''As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.In the few last months of the Second World War, thirteen-year-old Alina