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Franci Rabinek Epstein

Franci's War

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Franci's War

Books for Days of Remembrance

On April 8th, the nation observes Days of Remembrance in an effort to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust as well as honor survivors and pay tribute to liberators. To learn more about Days of Remembrance, click here.   The Tale of a Niggun The Tale of a Niggun is Elie Wiesel’s heartbreaking

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A Holocaust Survivor’s Perspective on Isolation

In 1942, 22 year-old Franci Rabinek arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto 40 miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey through four different camps. Her memoir, Franci’s War, offers her intense, candid account of those dark years before her liberation in 1945. Before that,

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