The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death - Hardcover

Fantlova, Zdenka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904794505 ISBN 13: 9781904794509

Publisher: Northumbria Univ Pr, 2010

Synopsis

A moving tale of courage, love, tenacity, and hope, this remarkable memoir documents one woman’s experience during the Holocaust. Enamored with a man named Arno, Zdenka Fantlová, a young Czech-Jewish woman, is separated from her soul-mate due to the German invasion. During a brief reunion, Arno proposes to 19-year-old Zdenka with a ring made from tin. Following Zdenka from Terezin through Auschwitz and Kurzbach to Bergen Belsen, this heartbreaking account dwells less on the horrors of extermination camps and more on the compassion of the friends and family who shared in her ordeal.

About this title

About the Author:

Zdenka Fantlova is an actress and a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp. Deryck Viney is the translator of The Secret Vysocany Congress: Proceedings and Documents of the Extraordinary Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 22 August 1968.

Review:

"[Tin Ring] occupies an outstanding place among the memoirs of Jews who were fighting for their naked lives . . . and goes deep into the changes of a human psyche in contact with death."  —Petr Kucera, Prague Zeitung

About this edition

• Publisher: Northumbria Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1904794505
• ISBN 13: 9781904794509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228