{"product_id":"francis-war-a-womans-story-of-survival-9780143135579","title":"Franci's War: A Woman's Story of Survival","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 labor camps in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April 1945, she finally returned to Prague. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFranci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection, saying she was an electrician, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. In this memoir, she offers her intense, candid, and sometimes funny account of those dark years, with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranci's War \u003c\/i\u003eis the powerful testimony of one incredibly strong young woman who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143135579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/21\/2020 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2020 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Franci Rabinek Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36634950336668,"sku":"9780143135579","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_006496c1-da04-4056-89b7-2479e3f8a8bd.jpg?v=1603838111","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/francis-war-a-womans-story-of-survival-9780143135579","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}