Franci`s War :a True Story /Franci Rabinek Epstein ; afterword by Helen Epstein.

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Franci`s War :a True Story /Franci Rabinek Epstein ; afterword by Helen Epstein. - [London] :Michael Joseph - Penguin Random House,2020. - [12], 258 stron :fotografie, mapy ;24 cm.

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Epstein Franci (1920-1989) Autor Epstein Helen (1947- ) Posłowie

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Epstein, Franci(1920-1989) Holokaust II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Niemieckie nazistowskie obozy koncentracyjne Żydzi Więźniowie obozów Ocaleni z Holokaustu Czechosłowacja

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Historia

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 Unpublished for 50 years, "Franci`s War" is an astonishing account of one woman`s attempt to survive those dark years.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.

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