Three sisters, united in suffering. Three never-before-seen accounts. A shattering correspondence.

A story we all thought we knew turns out to have a wealth of hitherto unrevealed elements: Simone Veil's romance before her deportation to the concentration camps, the striking account Madeleine writes just after returning from those camps (a rare document indeed, published here for the first time), Denise's voice in counterpoint to Simone's, and the ever-so-painful return to life in the war's immediate aftermath. The reticence, modesty, and overwhelming love these three sisters have for each other fairly bursts from the page.