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050 00 DS135.P63 |bK55753 2006
100 1  Kirschner, Ann.
245 10 Sala's gift : |bmy mother's Holocaust story / |cAnn Kirschner.
264  1 New York : |bFree Press, |c[2006]
264  4  |c©2006
300    vii, 287 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
520    For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. We know surprisingly little about the vast network of Nazi labor camps, where imprisoned Jews built railroads and highways, churned out munitions and materiel, and otherwise supported the limitless needs of the Nazi war machine. This book gives us an insider's account. In the first years, Sala was aided by her close friend Ala Gertner, who would later lead an uprising at Auschwitz. Sala was also helped by other key friends. Yet above all, she survived thanks to the slender threads of support expressed in the letters of her friends and family. She kept them at great personal risk, and it is astonishing that she was able to receive as many as she did. Her daughter Ann now tells her story through them--From publisher description.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Kirschner, Sala Garncarz, |d1924-2018.
650  0 Jews |zPoland |zSosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) |vBiography.
600 10 Kirschner, Sala Garncarz, |d1924-2018 |vCorrespondence.
600 10 Kirschner, Sala Garncarz, |d1924-2018 |xFamily.
600 30 Garncarz family.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xConscript labor |zPoland.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland.
651  0 Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
655  7 Personal correspondence. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006043743-d.html
852 0   |bstacks |hDS135.P63 |iK55753 2006
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