The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death

About this book

A moving tale of courage love tenacity and hope this remarkable memoir documents one womans experience during the Holocaust. Enamored with a man named Arno Zdenka Fantlov a young Czech-Jewish woman is separated from her soul-mate due to the German invasion. During a brief reunion Arno proposes to 19-year-old Zdenka with a ring made from tin. Following Zdenka from Terezin through Auschwitz and Kurzbach to Bergen?Belsen this heartbreaking account dwells less on the horrors of extermination camps and more on the compassion of the friends and family who shared in her ordeal.