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Franci's War

Franci Rabinek Epstein
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      Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'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 In 1942 Franci Epstein, a young Jewish woman, was imprisoned in Terezin, a concentration camp close to her home in Prague. Few could expect anything other than death. But for Franci it was the start of a journey that would take her into the very heart of Nazi genocide. Through a combination of guile, ingenuity, endurance and sheer bloody mindedness, Franci survived not one but five death camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. In this astonishing memoir, unpublished for 50 years, Franci lays bare the appalling sacrifices she and other women had to make to survive.It is a story of hope in the face of suffering; of one woman's determination to live. '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'Inspiring . . . Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review 'Remarkable' Eva Fogelman'A heartbreaking story of survival . . . fascinating' 5***** Reader Review'Deeply moving and extraordinary' Helen Fremont'Extremely moving, demonstrated amazing strength of will and determination to survive' 5***** Reader Review 'Incredible' Susannah Sirkin 'Devastating' Booklist
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Franci Rabinek Epstein EAN: 9780241441060 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 193 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-07 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Memoirs, Diaries, letters and journals, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political oppression and persecution, The Holocaust, Second World War

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      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.
      Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'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 In 1942 Franci Epstein, a young Jewish woman, was imprisoned in Terezin, a concentration camp close to her home in Prague. Few could expect anything other than death. But for Franci it was the start of a journey that would take her into the very heart of Nazi genocide. Through a combination of guile, ingenuity, endurance and sheer bloody mindedness, Franci survived not one but five death camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. In this astonishing memoir, unpublished for 50 years, Franci lays bare the appalling sacrifices she and other women had to make to survive.It is a story of hope in the face of suffering; of one woman's determination to live. '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'Inspiring . . . Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review 'Remarkable' Eva Fogelman'A heartbreaking story of survival . . . fascinating' 5***** Reader Review'Deeply moving and extraordinary' Helen Fremont'Extremely moving, demonstrated amazing strength of will and determination to survive' 5***** Reader Review 'Incredible' Susannah Sirkin 'Devastating' Booklist
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Franci Rabinek Epstein EAN: 9780241441060 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 193 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-07 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Memoirs, Diaries, letters and journals, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political oppression and persecution, The Holocaust, Second World War

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      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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