Unshed Tears

By Edith Hofmann
Published by Memoirs Publishing
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Published: Feb. 28, 2012
Words: 115,067 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908223913


Short description

This true-life novel was written in the aftermath of the Second World War and the author’s terrible experiences in a Nazi death camp. Only now has it been published for the first time.

Extended description

Unshed Tears, written soon after the war, relates the authors experiences of being deported to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. It has only very recently been published. Although it has been written as a novel, it details events, which were all too tragically true.

Edith Hofmann is a survivor of the Holocaust, born in Prague in 1927 as Edith Birkin. In 1941, along with her parents, she was deported to the Lodz Ghetto, where within a year both her parents had died. At 15 she was left to fend for
herself.

The Lodz Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto to Warsaw, and was established for Jews and Gypsies in German-occupied Poland. Situated in the town of Lodz in Poland and originally intended as a temporary gathering point for Jews, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, providing much needed supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the German Army.

Because of its remarkable productivity, the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944, when.. (Read more)


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auschwitz, holocaust jews belsen, nazis ww2 world war concentration camp edith hofmann

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