3.5 stars, rounded up. Incredibly interesting (and horrifying) subject matter, with first-hand accounts from survivors of the first transport of women to Auschwitz. Would have been 5 stars, but the book suffered from poor editing (words smooshed together, awkward sentences, there was a ¬ symbol right in the middle of a word...), and some of the author's attempts at interjecting (her) emotions into the book between the well-researched sections and interviews just didn't sit quite right.