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The Nazis knew my name, a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz, Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee with David Brewster

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The Nazis knew my name, a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz, Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee with David Brewster

Language

eng

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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non fiction

Main title

The Nazis knew my name

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Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee with David Brewster

Sub title

a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

Summary

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young Slovakian women were deported to Poland on the second transportation of Jewish people sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The women were told they'd be working at a shoe factory. At Auschwitz the SS soon discovered that by putting Jewish prisoners in charge of the day-to-day running of the accommodation blocks, camp administration and workforces, they could both reduce the number of guards required and deflect the distrust of the prisoner population away from themselves

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