{"product_id":"9780241441107","title":"Franci's War","description":"\u003cp\u003eEntering Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Franci was expected to die. She refused. In 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. \u003cbr\u003eIt would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labour camps in Hamburg, and finally to Bergen Belsen. Franci, a spirited and glamorous young woman, was known among her fellow inmates as the Prague dress designer. Having endured the transportation of her parents, she never forgot her mother's parting words: 'Your only duty to us is to stay alive'. \u003cbr\u003eDuring an Auschwitz selection, Franci would spontaneously lie to Nazi officer Dr Josef Mengele, and claim to be an electrician. A split-second decision that would go on to endanger - and save - her life. Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive. Heartbreaking and candid, Franci finds the light in her darkest years and the horrors she faces instill in her, strength and resilience to survive and to live again. \u003cbr\u003eShe gives voice to the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Her testimony sheds new light on the alliances, love affairs, and sexual barter that took place during the Holocaust, offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. \u003cbr\u003eAbove all, Franci's War asks us to explore what it takes to survive, and what it means to truly live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Franci+Epstein\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFranci Epstein\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Franci Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377559257251,"sku":"9780241441107","price":380.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241441107_7a2a64ff-0e9f-4ebe-8dab-199d8abd7840.jpg?v=1776464613","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780241441107","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}