Final Refuge – the book

When Elsa, a young Dutch nursing student, arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Dr. Mengele, a doctor fanatical about medical experiments on twins, notices Elsa’s disheveled nurse’s uniform. He assigns her as his nurse in preparing terrified twin children for his horrific studies to mold the perfect Aryan race.

Elsa soon forges a powerful bond with a high-ranking Nazi officer and a young Jewish man who works in the crematorium, all part of the resistance. Together they launch a secret rescue operation of the young twins and a euthanasia plan to end the lives of those children who suffer the most but cannot be saved.

Elsa becomes a passionate protector of the twins, but as rescue plans become detected, she must choose to escape the camp or stay and die with the children she protects.

Final Refuge is a powerful, unsettling, and emotional story that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.