Unseen

A Story of Hidden Lives and the Fire That Endured
Part One of The Dream That Carried Us

by Ashleigh Ren

In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, a young Roma girl named Anastazja must become someone else to survive. Hidden behind a Jewish name—Chava—and a borrowed identity, she navigates the brutal world of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where life hangs by a thread and resistance takes many forms.

After being rescued from the liquidation of the Roma Family Camp by three Jewish women, Chava learns to live, suffer, and survive alongside them in a sisterhood forged by desperation and courage.

As the war nears its end, whispers of evacuation send shockwaves through the camp. Forced into impossible choices, Chava clings to one memory of warmth: a single apricot, gifted in secret by a boy named Józef on the last night of Hanukkah.

Unseen is a tale of survival and identity, of quiet resistance in the face of annihilation, and of the fragile, enduring thread of hope that binds those who refuse to be extinguished.