{"product_id":"irena-my-story-of-survival-hardcover","title":"Irena: My Story of Survival - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrena Mausner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnna Deavere Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrena Mausner (n?e Frydman) was three-and-a-half years old when the Nazi army invaded Poland in 1939. A few weeks later, they ordered her family to vacate her family home in an elegant Warsaw neighborhood-to leave forever. Irena and her sister, Margaret, hid in a Catholic orphanage on the outskirts of Warsaw during most of the war. Their father, Roman, a soldier in the Polish army, was captured in Budapest in 1944 and taken to a German POW camp; their mother subsisted in the Warsaw Ghetto and then was sent to Ravensbr?ck, also in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImprobably, the entire family survived. Thanks to a note that the quick-thinking Margaret had posted to the door frame of their former family home, the Frydmans were reunited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving the Holocaust is just the beginning of Irena's remarkable story. Her memoir takes us through boarding school in London, a happy marriage to a childhood friend of her sister's, and a move to the United States. Raised in conditions of scarcity, uncertainty, and terror, Irena developed a sense of purpose and of perseverance that drove her to a life of academic and professional achievement and material success. More importantly, she absorbed the understanding of impermanence and the importance of decency-qualities that helped her appreciate a happy marriage and overcome a second round of tragedy that struck late in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733756481599,"sku":"9780978814304","price":33.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/31c03018b327d24a9a4355cc2b147dea.webp?v=1765137278","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/irena-my-story-of-survival-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}