Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to AuschwitzIn March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced...
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An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to AuschwitzIn March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one days. From smuggling bread for their friends to narrowly escaping the ever-present threats that loomed at every turn, the compelling events in Rena’s Promise remind us that humanity and hope can survive inordinate brutality.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780807093139 (0807093130)
ASIN: 0807093130
Publish date: 2015-03-17
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
A captivating and heartwrenching story of courage, selflessness, hope, and survival. This book was eye opening and humbling as Rena shared her tale of survival in Auschwitz while trying to remain humane and trying to keep her promise to her sister. Although it takes place during the Holocaust, this ...
Best camp survivor story I've ever read.
Probably one of the best Holocaust memoirs I've ever read, and an inspiration. The author and her sister were among the earliest prisoners of Auschwitz, and despite the number years they spent there enduring selections and hunger and disease they still survived. The writing is eloquent and visual.
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