Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai indicted for the murder of

indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews

Persistence is power

Captured immediately

Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century

and a young love that struggles to endure the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai indicted for the murder ofBy Rena Kornreich Gelissen Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise Rena made to her mother when the family was forced to split apart a promise to take care of her sister. One of the few Holocaust memoirs about the lives of women in the camps, Rena's Promise is a compelling