Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz

· Sold by Beacon Press
4.8
25 reviews
Ebook
320
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An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz

Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise Rena made to her mother when the family was forced to split apart--a promise to take care of her sister.

One of the few Holocaust memoirs about the lives of women in the camps, Rena's Promise is a compelling story of the fleeting human connections that fostered determination and made survival a possibility. From the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, to the links between prisoners, and even prisoners and guards, Rena's Promise reminds us of the humanity and hope that survives inordinate inhumanity.

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4.8
25 reviews
Ali Wilde
April 17, 2018
I am so glad this book was written, by a beautiful girl/lady inside and out too show her love and compassion not only for Danka but all her Jewish and Polish friends in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Rena is truly a lovely , wonderful lady thank God you survived to tell us the true horrors of Auschwitz Birkenau. and the true inhumanity of The Germans doing such evil to other Human beings .All Jewish people around the world are human .
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Anna Lisovskaya
November 17, 2018
Before I got this story in my hands, i already have read few books, lots of texts in internet about Holocaust. But how I was impressed reading this book, I can't describe, every details, Rena remembers it all. It feels like this story is a story of each person who live the Holocaust.
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Abby Fairbrother
August 23, 2015
Fantastic book, I cried my eyes out, very thought provoking. I bought a copy for my sister also.
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About the author

Rena Kornreich Gelissen lives with her husband in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Heather Dune Macadam, a freelance writer, lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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