Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai and oral histories to tell

and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women

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is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec

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Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai and oral histories to tellBy Rena Kornreich Gelissen 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