Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai Persistence is power

Persistence is power

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

indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews

In early 2017

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz Shanghai Persistence is powerBy 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