Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust
Autor Franci Rabinek Epsteinen Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2020
'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 needs 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Unpublished for 50 years,Franci's Waris an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive. Heartbreaking and candid, Franci finds the light in her darkest years and the horrors she faces instill in her, strength and resilience to survive and to live again. She gives a 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 Warasks 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 asFranci's War'Mail on Sunday
'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read'5***** Reader Review
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241441046
ISBN-10: 0241441048
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 144 x 222 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Michael Joseph
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241441048
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 144 x 222 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Michael Joseph
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Franci
Rabinek
Epsteinwas
born
in
Prague,
Czechoslovakia
in
1920
and
educated
at
the
Ecole
Francaise,
Lycee
de
Prague,
and
the
Deutsches
Staatsrealgymnasium
before
dropping
out
to
apprentice
in
her
mother's
haute
couture
Salon.
At
18,
Franci
became
the
owner
of
the
Salon,
though
the
family
were
eventually
forced
to
'aryanize'
their
Jewish
business.
A
newlywed
when
she
arrived
at
Terezin,
she
regarded
the
Nazi
concentration
camps
as
her
university.
After
liberation
by
the
British
in
April
1945,
Franci
would
finally
return
to
Prague,
the
only
immediate
member
of
her
family
to
have
survived.
She
married
Kurt
Epstein
in
1946
and
then,
after
the
Communist
takeover
of
Czechoslovakia
in
1948,
she
emigrated
to
New
York
City
and
established
a
new
fashion
salon
on
the
Upper
West
Side.
She
lectured
at
universities
on
her
experience
during
the
war
before
dying
of
a
brain
aneurysm
in
1989.
Her
daughter,
journalist
Helen
Epstein,
has
written
the
afterword
forFranci's
War.
Recenzii
Franci's
story
is
a
testament
to
the
human
spirit
.
.
.
a
mesmerising
read
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
Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir
First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary asFranci's War
Achingly moving, gives much needed hope . . .Franci's Wardeserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir of one woman's human experience of arguably the most abominable period of modern times
Asplendidly-toldmemoir. I waschilledandmoved
Devestating.A searingly honest memoir
Astriking memoirfrom anunspeakably terrifying era.Married hastily to a young man who was able to help her family survive by his canny trading instincts - until he was caught and disappeared - Franci was herded into the cattle cars for transport to Auschwitz in May 1944.From then on, Franci demonstrates a fierce determination to adapt and prevail amid the harshest conditions
Rarely does a Holocaust survivor have such penetrating insight. This isa most remarkable memoir, told without self-pity, but withdeep psychological astutenessabout herself and the people she encountered.I didn't want it to end
What are the qualities of a heroine tested and shaped by history, not by myth?She must haveunflinching intelligence, wit, will, and honestyin the face of near-unbearable trials. Franci Rabinek Epstein was a worldly, pleasure-loving dress designer when the Nazi's invaded Prague;she endured and prevailedwhen they sent her to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.Her voice is rivetingwhether she's outwitting Josef Mengele, grappling with her own despair, discussing Dostoevsky with another prisoner, delousing her hair with kerosene or improvising a Cocteau monologue for a show the women inmates stage with canny defiance.She survived the worst of her times; she speaks to the best of ours
Full of passion, heartache and love- shedding light on humanity's darkest era and providing testimony to theincredible human capacity for resilience
Anincrediblenarrative, sofinely detailedanddistinctive, and awholly consuming read. I gainednew insight into the traumas of the Holocaustand couldn't put it down.Francihad the writer in her, not to mention astonishingresilienceandresourcefulness
Arivetingaccount of how a young fashion designer in Prague survived the Holocaust, written withremarkable clarity,candour, andintelligence.Deeply moving and extraordinary
Abrave,timeless,important work
In acompellingvoice, Franciilluminates the horror, shock, small graces,andcapriciousnessofsurviving the Holocaust
A compelling, true story of surviving the Second World War that reads like a dark, psychological thriller
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
Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir
First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary asFranci's War
Achingly moving, gives much needed hope . . .Franci's Wardeserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir of one woman's human experience of arguably the most abominable period of modern times
Asplendidly-toldmemoir. I waschilledandmoved
Devestating.A searingly honest memoir
Astriking memoirfrom anunspeakably terrifying era.Married hastily to a young man who was able to help her family survive by his canny trading instincts - until he was caught and disappeared - Franci was herded into the cattle cars for transport to Auschwitz in May 1944.From then on, Franci demonstrates a fierce determination to adapt and prevail amid the harshest conditions
Rarely does a Holocaust survivor have such penetrating insight. This isa most remarkable memoir, told without self-pity, but withdeep psychological astutenessabout herself and the people she encountered.I didn't want it to end
What are the qualities of a heroine tested and shaped by history, not by myth?She must haveunflinching intelligence, wit, will, and honestyin the face of near-unbearable trials. Franci Rabinek Epstein was a worldly, pleasure-loving dress designer when the Nazi's invaded Prague;she endured and prevailedwhen they sent her to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.Her voice is rivetingwhether she's outwitting Josef Mengele, grappling with her own despair, discussing Dostoevsky with another prisoner, delousing her hair with kerosene or improvising a Cocteau monologue for a show the women inmates stage with canny defiance.She survived the worst of her times; she speaks to the best of ours
Full of passion, heartache and love- shedding light on humanity's darkest era and providing testimony to theincredible human capacity for resilience
Anincrediblenarrative, sofinely detailedanddistinctive, and awholly consuming read. I gainednew insight into the traumas of the Holocaustand couldn't put it down.Francihad the writer in her, not to mention astonishingresilienceandresourcefulness
Arivetingaccount of how a young fashion designer in Prague survived the Holocaust, written withremarkable clarity,candour, andintelligence.Deeply moving and extraordinary
Abrave,timeless,important work
In acompellingvoice, Franciilluminates the horror, shock, small graces,andcapriciousnessofsurviving the Holocaust
A compelling, true story of surviving the Second World War that reads like a dark, psychological thriller