Seventy-nine years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the number of living survivors and firsthand witnesses is rapidly dwindling. In this context, books like Los amantes de Auschwitz take on an urgent and vital importance. As The Jewish Chronicle concludes, "with living memories fading and denial or revisionism increasingly common, books like this matter, shedding light as they do on the individuals who saw evil close up and survived to tell the tale".

. Both were Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp who managed to find a profound connection amid the horrors of the Holocaust. The narrative, which grew from a viral New York Times article

Blankfeld's personal connection to the material runs deep. The granddaughter of four World War II refugees, she grew up hearing stories of survivors and displaced persons, which imbues her work with a sense of profound personal mission.