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Signs of Survival
- Narrator
- Rebecca Gibel
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 28 May 2024
- Run Time
- 1 hour 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
I was my family's ears.
Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable—together. This is their true story.
As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide.
But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times.
This gripping memoir is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.
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Details
- Author
- Joshua M. Greene, Renee Hartman
- Narrator
- Rebecca Gibel
- Duration
- 1 hour 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855551563
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and special needs
Synopsis
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf.I was my family's ears.Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable—together. This is their true story.As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide.But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times.This gripping memoir is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.
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