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RENA'S PROMISE: TWO SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ
RENE KORNREICH GELISSEN
How do you go from being a grandmother to a writer? Well, you need someone with kind eyes to sit across from you so when you tell your story you can see your tears reflected in hers and you know what you went through is not only real, but touching the next generation.
If I have any motto for life after 3 years in Auschwitz it is this: The heart is only so big. So I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win.
Please pass it on. Love, Rena
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM'S first book, was RENA'S PROMISE: A STORY OF SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ, is a memoir about the 716th woman in Auschwitz. Published by Beacon Press in October 1995, and nominated for the National Book Award, the Christopher Awards, the American Jewish Awards and the National Library Association Awards. RENA'S PROMISE has been published in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Japan and Germany (where it was book of the month in Sept. 1997). Ms. Macadam is active in fighting against Holocaust denial social networks by disseminating Rena's story through YouTube, MySpace and her fan club on Facebook.
Ms. Macadam teaches Creative Nonfiction and Journalism at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton and Creative Writing at the Young American Writers Program at Southampton College's renowned Summer Writer's Conference
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by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
4.8 stars - 104 reviews
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Imagining that, by volunteering for a work camp, she would somehow be protecting her family from the Nazis, Rena, at age 17, put on her best clothes, left her fiance and the Polish village of Tylicz in the Carpathian Mountains and was sent off to Auschwitz. Presently, her sister Danka arrived, as did cousins, schoolmates and neighbors. As a child, she had promised her mother to look after her baby sister, and that promise obsessed her throughout her incarceration in the camp. It gave her reason to survive, so that one day she could bring Danka safely home. How they escaped starvation, beatings, the crematorium, the medical experiments of the notorious Josef Mengele and survived the end of the war is all recounted here in this spirited survivor's testament, written with freelancer Macadam. After the war, Rena married a Red Cross worker and emigrated to the U.S., following her sister.
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The most historically accurate book ever written of the first transport of women into Auschwitz--the only book ever written by a survivor of that transport, who survived 3 years and 41 days in the camps.
Irena Strezlecka, Director of the Museum of Women at Auschwitz
About the Author
RENE KORNREICH GELISSEN
How do you go from being a grandmother to a writer? Well, you need someone with kind eyes to sit across from you so when you tell your story you can see your tears reflected in hers and you know what you went through is not only real, but touching the next generation.
If I have any motto for life after 3 years in Auschwitz it is this: The heart is only so big. So I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win.
Please pass it on. Love, Rena
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM'S first book, was RENA'S PROMISE: A STORY OF SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ, is a memoir about the 716th woman in Auschwitz. Published by Beacon Press in October 1995, and nominated for the National Book Award, the Christopher Awards, the American Jewish Awards and the National Library Association Awards. RENA'S PROMISE has been published in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Japan and Germany (where it was book of the month in Sept. 1997). Ms. Macadam is active in fighting against Holocaust denial social networks by disseminating Rena's story through YouTube, MySpace and her fan club on Facebook.
Ms. Macadam teaches Creative Nonfiction and Journalism at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton and Creative Writing at the Young American Writers Program at Southampton College's renowned Summer Writer's Conference
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KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Tuesday, January 24: 174 BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 2,100+ FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Heather Dune Macadam’s RENA’S PROMISE (Today’s Sponsor – $9.99 and currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Through the Kindle Lending Library)
Kindle Nation Reader Alert: RENA’S PROMISE: TWO SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam – 4.7 Stars on 14 Reviews, with a Free 5,000-Word Excerpt
RENA’S PROMISE: TWO SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ
by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
RENA’S PROMISE: TWO SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ
by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
4.7 stars – 14 Reviews
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“I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win.” Rena Kornreich Gelissen
“The most important book of the modern age!” Neal Lavon, Voice of America
“The most historically accurate book ever written of the first transport of women into Auschwitz–the only book ever written by a survivor of that transport, who survived 3 years and 41 days in the camps.” Irena Strezlecka, Director of the Museum of Women at Auschwitz
On March 26, 1942, the first transport of women arrived in Auschwitz. Among the 999 young Jewish women was Rena Kornreich, the 716th woman numbered in camp. A few days later, her sister Danka arrives and so begins a trial of love and courage that will last 3 years and 41 days, from the beginning Auschwitz death camp to the end of the war.
Rena’s Promise stands out from other memoirs in mere length of time she spent in the camps. No other survivor from the first transport has ever written about her experience and what it meant to survive for so long as a peasant and a hard laborer who spent 10-12 hours a day making bricks, pushing lorries, sifting sand, performing cartwheels…. From her escape from Dr. Mengele’s experiment detail to her surreal meetings with SS woman Irma Grese, Rena tells a dynamic tale of courage and compassion that reminds us of the resiliency of the human spirit, and the power of people to help one another in unimaginable circumstances, be they Gentile or Jew, German or Pole, kapo or prisoner.
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