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Franci`s War : a true Story

Autor: Epstein, Helen

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Unpublished for 50 years, Franci`s War is an astonishing account of one woman`s attempt to survive those dark years.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