Fragments of Memory / רצח ביום כיפור / Z Kolina Do Jerusalema / Фрагменты памяти / Von Kolin Nach Jerusalem
Over 16,000 sold. The nineteen haunting but touching narratives take the reader into the heart of a young teenage girl as she endures the Nazi death camp system.
Introduction by Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic.
From the book
'In Auschwitz, time had different dimensions. Time here was defined by waiting for the one daily ration of a slice of bread, which was the very substance of life...'
Reviews:
'One striking element … fully as powerful as the text, is the rich and varied scope of the illustrations which the author has interspersed on almost every page: drawings made by camp inmates, photographs, caricatures and historical documents.'
Helen Schary Motro
Esra Magazine
n this powerfully moving account, the author, whose family lived in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, for many generations, shares episodes of her life during and after the Holocaust. Introduction by Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic. "The Diary of Anne Frank is now a part of the reading list. I would recommend Hana Greenfield's "Fragments of Memory" as a better book for young people because where Anne Frank's narrative stops, Greenfield's takes the reader into the heart of darkness and shows what life was in the death camps through the eyes of a teenager. Journal of Czech and Slovak History
