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The Redhead of Auschwitz
- Author
- Nechama Birnbaum
- Narrator
- Tavia Gilbert
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 27 September 2022
- Run Time
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.
Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos and surrounded by hopelessness, Rosie realizes the only thing the Nazis cannot take away from her is the fierce redhead resilience in her spirit. When all of her friends conclude they are going to heaven from Auschwitz, she remains determined to get home. She summons all of her courage, through death camps and death marches to do just that.
This victorious biography, written by Nechama Birnbaum in honor of her grandmother, is as full of life as it is of death. It is about the intricacies of Jewish culture that still exist today and the tender experiences that are universal to all humanity. It is a story about what happens when we choose hate over love.
Critics Review
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“A story of a heroic Holocaust survivor…[whose] courage and indomitable faith inspires us to still believe in the decency of humanity.”
Rabbi Meyer H. May, executive director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
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“Her testimony honors the memory of family members who were murdered by the Germans and demonstrates how, against all odds, she survived.”
Alex Grobman, PhD, author of Denying History
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“A powerful work that traces Rosie’s experience from the lively family life of her youth, to…Auschwitz and the daily struggle for survival…An important story told with grace and love.”
Michael Berenbaum, professor of Jewish studies at the American Jewish University
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Details
- Author
- Nechama Birnbaum
- Narrator
- Tavia Gilbert
- Duration
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212012263
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Judaism, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
Synopsis
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos and surrounded by hopelessness, Rosie realizes the only thing the Nazis cannot take away from her is the fierce redhead resilience in her spirit. When all of her friends conclude they are going to heaven from Auschwitz, she remains determined to get home. She summons all of her courage, through death camps and death marches to do just that.This victorious biography, written by Nechama Birnbaum in honor of her grandmother, is as full of life as it is of death. It is about the intricacies of Jewish culture that still exist today and the tender experiences that are universal to all humanity. It is a story about what happens when we choose hate over love.
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