Maya Lee

Sophie Timothy

About The Author

Maya Lee is the daughter of Magda Hellinger. She is an accomplished businesswoman and fundraiser with several nonprofit organizations. After coauthoring an autobiography of her Holocaust-survivor husband, she encouraged her mother to document her own story. Maya subsequently conducted wide-ranging research to fill out her mother’s story. The Nazis Knew My Name is the result.

Books by Maya Lee

The Nazis Knew My Name

A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity.

A New York Post ‘Must-Have’ Book

In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old...
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