Rena's Promise
  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807093139
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
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Rena's Promise

A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz

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A revised edition of the powerful memoir about one woman's struggle and survival during the Holocaust.

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

In March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one days. From smuggling bread for their friends to narrowly escaping the ever-present threats that loomed at every turn, the compelling events in Rena’s Promise remind us that humanity and hope can survive inordinate brutality.
  • Published: 1 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9780807093139
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

Praise for Rena's Promise

"... written with simplicity and grace. There are sections describing such intense cruelty that it is difficult to go on reading, but cruelty is not the most memorable aspect of this book. Instead, the overwhelming feeling upon finishing is one of triumph: It is still possible to find selflessness and human connection among people living in a place of relentless horror."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Rena's Promise went with us on the Zen Peacemakers' first pilgrimage to Auschwitz in 1996. On our first night together, one of our monks shared a simple message of love from Rena to us. Her message changed our lives.--Peter Matthiessen, author of In Paradise.

"One of the most accurate accounts and the only account of the first women's camp in Auschwitz. This is a book historians will refer to for years to come."--Irena Strezlecka, Director, Auschwitz Museum of Women, Oświęcim, Poland