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Trois wagons à bestiaux
Zila Rennert

From 1914 to 1946, the itinerary of a young woman from a well-off family of Jewish industrialists, born in Lithuania in 1908. Having lived through World War I, then the October Revolution in St Petersburg, Zila’s family fled first to Vienna, then to Poland and was finally deported to Siberia… which Zila, her husband and their 4-year-old daughter managed to escape. With fake ID, they fled from ghetto to ghetto, constantly at the mercy of denunciation. After her husband disappeared, Zila narrates her survival with her daughter, the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, the insurrection of the city in August 1944, and their arrest. This account takes us to the gates of Auschwitz, where Zila and her daughter were taken in a cattle car. They only survived the war thanks to their stubborn determination and courage.
This extraordinary document describes the daily life of a Jewish woman’s desperate flight from one hiding place to another across a war-torn Europe. The raw writing, simmering with emotion, reveals the transformation of a wealthy young girl into a true survivor, whose courage, resourcefulness and creativity in the most desperate situation force our admiration. A woman’s destiny is drawn through this extraordinary historical narrative.

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  • Publication date : 01/02/2007
  • Size : 15,3 x 24 cm, 272 p., 19,25 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-7529-0235-1
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