Rena's promise
Subtitle: a story of sisters in Auschwitz
By: Rena Kornreich Gelissen with Heather Dune Macadam.
Contributors: Macadam, Heather Dune.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Gelissen, Rena Kornreich, 1920-; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Description: Rena's Promise is the extraordinary memoir of a young woman from Poland who survived the Nazi death camps for more than three years. Sent on the first Jewish transport to Auschwitz, Rena Kornreich is soon reunited with her sister Danka in the camp. Each day becomes 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.

Rena tells her story of life in the camps with relentless sobriety. But it is not without hope, for what emerges through the horror is a humanity stripped to its essential connections - the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, men and women prisoners, even prisoners and guards. Through these connections, Rena survives each day with the deep conviction that she and her sister must see the next.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(p. [275]).