by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780807070703
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«Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz» is the testimony of Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam, published by Beacon Press in hardcover.
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, a Polish Jew deported on the first transport to Auschwitz, fulfills there the promise made to her mother: not to be separated from her sister Danka. The account of nearly three and a half years in the camps shows how the bond between them and minimal human connections sustain their will to live until the next day.
First edition originally published in 1995; text in English, 275 pages.
For readers of historical memoirs and Holocaust testimonies, especially about World War II and survival between sisters.
