Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai is set in motion when

is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec

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

and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women

The acclaimed author of Zaitoun returns with vibrant recipes and powerful stories from the islands that bridge the Mediterranean and the Middle East

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai is set in motion whenBy 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