Download Franci's War PDF
2020
Title | Franci's War |
---|---|
Authors | Franci Epstein |
Genres | Social & Cultural History World War 2 Fiction Biography: Historical Political & Military Biography: Religious & Spiritual Memoirs Books European History Holocaust Books Coming Soon |
Publisher | Penguin Books, Limited |
ISBN | 9780241441046 |
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 Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive those dark years.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
More Books You May Like
![The Mood Cure by Julia Ross](https://files.pdfjatt.com/cover/the-mood-cure-by-julia-ross.webp)
The Mood Cure by Julia Ross
Are you a part of the bad mood epidemic? Here are the answers you've been looking for! Julia Ross’s plan provides a na...
![You Are a Badass at Making Money](https://files.pdfjatt.com/cover/you-are-a-badass-at-making-money.webp)
You Are a Badass at Making Money
From the author of You Are A Badass, the New Your Times bestselling book everyone is talking about. YOU ARE A BADASS AT ...
![The Ivory Key #1 by Akshaya Raman](https://files.pdfjatt.com/cover/the-ivory-key-1-by-akshaya-raman.webp)
The Ivory Key #1 by Akshaya Raman
In this epic YA fantasy debut, magic, a prized resource, is the only thing between peace and war. When magic runs out, f...
![The Stars Undying (Empire Without End #1)](https://files.pdfjatt.com/cover/the-stars-undying-empire-without-end-1.webp)
The Stars Undying (Empire Without End #1)
A "dazzling" tale of empire and betrayal set among the stars (#1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston), thi...
![The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon](https://files.pdfjatt.com/cover/the-unknown-beloved-by-amy-harmon.webp)
The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people who...