The true story of a girl's upbringing as the daughter of the commandant of AuschwitzBarbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfortbut her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the most infamous of all the concentration camps: Auschwitz. The author tells her father's story with clarity and without judgment, detailing his relationship with his family and his unceasing love for his mistress, as well as the very separate life he led as...