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

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What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live? '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 Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive those dark years.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.'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read' 5***** Reader Review'A candid account of shocking events. Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780241441077
Related ISBNs:
9781405947152, 9780241441046, 9780241441060, 9780241441107
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
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Copyrighted By:
Penguin Books Ltd
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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