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Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust

Autor Franci Rabinek Epstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2020
What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?

'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir'Daily Express
'A story that neads to be heard'5***** Reader Review
Entering Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Franci was expected to die. She refused.
In the summer of 1942, twenty-two-year-old Franci Rabinek - designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws - arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labour camps in Hamburg, and finally to Bergen Belsen.
Franci, a spirited and glamorous young woman, was known among her fellow inmates as the Prague dress designer. Having endured the transportation of her parents, she never forgot her mother's parting words:
'Your only duty to us is to stay alive'.
During an Auschwitz selection, Franci would spontaneously lie to Nazi officer Dr Josef Mengele, and claim to be an electrician.
A split-second decision that would go on to endanger - and save - her life.
Unpublished for 50 years,Franci's Waris an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive those dark years. Heartbreaking, candid, and sometimes unbearably funny, she gives voice to the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Her testimony sheds new light on the alliances, love affairs, and sexual barter that took place during the Holocaust, offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.
Above all,Franci's Warasks us to explore what it takes to survive, and what it means to truly live.

'A candid account of shocking events. Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with'5***** Reader Review
'First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary asFranci's War'Mail on Sunday
'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read'5***** Reader Review
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241441107
ISBN-10: 0241441102
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Michael Joseph
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

At the age of twenty-two, Frances Epstein, her first husband, and her parents were deported from Prague. She would spend the next six years moving between different concentration camps, before being liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. She was the only immediate member of her family to survive the Holocaust.


Recenzii

Franci's story is a testament to the human spirit . . . a mesmerising read
The extraordinary true story of the girl who survived the holocaust against all of the odds . . . In this astonishing memoir, she lays bare the appalling sacrifices she and other women had to make to survive
Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir
First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary asFranci's War

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What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?

'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express
'A story that neads to be heard' 5***** Reader Review
Entering Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Franci was expected to die. She refused.
In the summer of 1942, twenty-two-year-old Franci Rabinek - designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws - arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labour camps in Hamburg, and finally to Bergen Belsen.
Franci, a spirited and glamorous young woman, was known among her fellow inmates as the Prague dress designer. Having endured the transportation of her parents, she never forgot her mother's parting words:
'Your only duty to us is to stay alive'.
During an Auschwitz selection, Franci would spontaneously lie to Nazi officer Dr Josef Mengele, and claim to be an electrician.
A split-second decision that would go on to endanger - and save - her life.
Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive those dark years. Heartbreaking, candid, and sometimes unbearably funny, she gives voice to the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Her testimony sheds new light on the alliances, love affairs, and sexual barter that took place during the Holocaust, offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.
Above all, Franci's War asks us to explore what it takes to survive, and what it means to truly live.

'A candid account of shocking events. Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review
'First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary as Franci's War' Mail on Sunday
'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read' 5***** Reader Review