Rena Kornreich Gelissen RENA'S PROMISE First Edition
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Rena Kornreich Gelissen RENA'S PROMISE First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of RENA'S PROMISE: A Story of Two Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London in 1996.The book is in very good condition (clean brown boards and bright gold lettering on spine which has slight creasing to the top and bottom edges). The dust jacket, which is not price clipped, is in good condition (very slight creasing to the edges and a very small closed tear around the top corner of the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions. There is only minor yellowing to the page edges.
From the jacket blurp:"In March 1942 Rena Kornreich, a young woman from Poland, was sent on the first Jewish transport to Auschwitz. On 2 May 1945, at the end of the war, she and her sister walked free, having survived the Nazi death camps for more than three years. Rena's Promise is the story of their horrifying ordeal. Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz, Rena was reunited with her younger sister Danka, and her determination to fulfil the promise made to her mother to take care of her sister and bring her home became her lifeline. In the face of unimaginable hatred, cruelty and deprivation, her wellsprings of inner strength and resourcefulness enabled both of them to survive illness, murderous work details and the selections of Dr Mengele.Rena's Promise offers an intimate and devastating portrait of the lives of women during the Holocaust, and is an extraordinary testimony to the bonds between mothers and daughters, sisters, men and women prisoners, even prisoners and guards, as well as to the complex workings of our humanity when faced with so much that is inhuman. Above all, it is the unforgettable story of the small yet immeasurable triumph over evil of one woman's courage, love and will to live."274 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs.ISBN: 0 297 81805 8We use industry standard packagingPlease refer to the statement of delivery below:Items are sent promptly and well packed
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