This author delves into the shadowed chapters of history to resurrect forgotten narratives, focusing her literary lens on the resilience of the human spirit amidst unimaginable suffering. Her work prominently features the experiences of young women during the Holocaust, bringing them to the forefront of historical accounts. Through meticulous research and a compelling narrative style, she breathes life into historical figures, ensuring their voices resonate. Her dedication to combating historical denial and oblivion is evident, offering readers a profoundly moving and educational experience.
Annette je temperamentní dívka, která studuje pařížskou Akademii krásných umění. Jean je básník, vůdčí postava dadaistické skupiny Les Réverberes. Oba milují jazz a oba se potkávají v proslulé pařížské kavárně Café de Flore, kde lze zahlédnout Picassa, Simone de Beauvoir a další osobnosti pařížského uměleckého života. Mezi Annette a Jeanem se rozhoří láska a plánují společnou budoucnost. Avšak píše se rok 1942 a Annette je Židovka…
Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis--and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the malevolent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives that French people bravely led under the Hitler regime.
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women-many of them teenagers-were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about 160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.
A Story of Sisters in AuschwitzAs a young woman, Rena Kornreich endured the Nazi death camps for almost three and a half years. Rena's Promise, the remarkable story of her survival, shows how her relationship with her younger sister, Danka, gave her the will to persevere under unimaginable circumstances. "Deeply moving."-Dena Taylor, San Francisco Chronicle