


Franci`s War : a True Story
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 Unpublished for 50 years, "Franci`s War" is an astonishing account of one woman`s attempt to survive those dark years.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.
Zobacz pełny opis| Odpowiedzialność: | Franci Rabinek Epstein ; afterword by Helen Epstein. | Hasła: | Epstein, Franci (1920-1989) Holokaust II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Niemieckie nazistowskie obozy koncentracyjne Żydzi Więźniowie obozów Ocaleni z Holokaustu Czechosłowacja Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Literatura żydowska |
| Adres wydawniczy: | [London] : Michael Joseph - Penguin Random House, 2020. |
| Opis fizyczny: | [12], 258 stron : fotografie, mapy ; 24 cm. |
| Forma gatunek: | Książki. Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka. |
| Dziedzina: | Historia |
| Zakres czasowy: | 1939-1945 r. |
| Powstanie dzieła: | 2020 r. |
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