Hédi Fried Book order

A young readers' edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust. Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily terror at the camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Hédi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened. This is a deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat. 'Timeless lessons taught with simple eloquence.' Kirkus Reviews

Memoirs of a Holocaust survivor born in Sighet, Romania in 1924 (née Szmuk) who recounts her story of survival in the ghetto of Sighet, in Auschwitz, in forced labor camps in the area of Hamburg (Altona, Wilhelmshaven, Eidelstadt) and her transfer to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated by the British in April 1945, together with her sister. Their parents were murdered in Auschwitz. After the war they settled in Sweden where Hedi now works (as a psychologist) with Holocaust survivors and their offspring. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)