Franci's War - A Woman's Story of Survival (Paperback)

The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein. 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 labor camps in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April 1945, she finally returned to Prague. Franci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection, saying she was an electrician, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. In this memoir, she offers her intense, candid, and sometimes funny account of those dark years, with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Franci's War is the powerful testimony of one incredibly strong young woman who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and survived.

General

Imprint:	Penguin USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2020
Authors:	Franci Rabinek Epstein
Afterword by:	Helen Epstein
Dimensions:	210 x 146 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Rough front
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-313557-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-14-313557-0
Barcode:	9780143135579

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