Franci's War
The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust
$39.00
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2021
Summary
Once too controversial to publish, this is the incredible story, told for the very first time, of a young Jewish seamstress who survived five Nazi concentration camps.
What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?
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 beg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241441060 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241441064 |
| Author: | Franci Rabinek Epstein |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Michael Joseph Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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Franci’s story is a testament to the human spirit … a mesmerising read
Franci’s story is a testament to the human spirit … a mesmerising read * Jewish Chronicle *
The extraordinary true story of the girl who survived the holocaust against all of the odds … In this astonishing memoir, she lays bare the appalling sacrifices she and other women had to make to survive * Eastern Daily Press *
Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope … Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir * Daily Express *
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 *
About The Author
Franci Rabinek Epstein
At the age of twenty-two, Frances Epstein, her first husband, and her parents were deported from Prague. She would spend the next six years moving between different concentration camps, before being liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. She was the only immediate member of her family to survive the Holocaust.
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