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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk – Franci’s War with Helen Epstein
DESCRIPTION:Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival is an engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll\, presented by her daughter\, Helen Epstein. \nIn the summer of 1942\, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek–designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws–arrived at Terezin\, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau\, to the slave labor camps in Hamburg\, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April 1945\, she finally returned to Prague. \nFranci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection\, saying she was an electrician\, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. In this memoir\, she offers her intense\, candid\, and sometimes funny account of those dark years\, with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. \nFranci’s War is the powerful testimony of one incredibly strong young woman who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and survived. \nRegister to get access to the Zoom session.\nThis program is free and open to the public. \nAbout Helen Epstein \nHelen Epstein (helenepstein.com) is a veteran journalist and author who has published ten books of non-fiction\, including the trilogy Children of the Holocaust\, Where She Came From\, and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. Her annotated edition of her mother’s memoir Franci’s War has been published in nine countries. She lives in Massachusetts. \nThis program is free and open to the public.\nPlease consider donating whatever amount you can to support the Museum’s mission. \n
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