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Heather dune macadam rena kornriech recounts her more than three years spent in the nazi death camps along with her younger sister. Renas promise by rena kornreich gelissen, heather dune. The book rena s promise is one such story of a promise made, and a promise kept, by a young girl to her mother, to always, and at any cost, to protect her younger sister. Renas promise went with us on the zen peacemakers first pilgrimage to auschwitz in 1996. Sent to auschwitz on the first jewish transport, rena kornreich survived the nazi death camps for over three years. The unbelievable hate and brutality of the holocaust can make reading a personal account of that time feel too depressing to undertake. A story of sisters in auschwitz by rena kornreich gelissen, heather dune macadam.
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A story of sisters in auschwitz by rene kornreich gelissen, heather dune macadam. Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise rena made to her. While there she was reunited with her sister danka. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading rena s promise. New edition of rena s promise will be released march 26, 2015. And renas promise is suffused with soulwrenching sadness. An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters determination to survive during the holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first. Nov 01, 2009 this is the biography page for heather dune macadam. Renas promise a story of sisters in auschwitz by gelissen, rena kornreich, macadam, heather dune. The women and girls who survived were in auschwitz until the death march in jan. Buy a cheap copy of rena s promise book by rena kornreich gelissen. Rena s promise a story of sisters in auschwitz by gelissen, rena kornreich, macadam, heather dune. Rena kornreich gelissen, born rena kornreich 24 august 1920 8 august 2006, was a polishborn jew, known for her memoir, renas promise. She fled tylicz, the city were she was raised and hid in slovakia.
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