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	• Rena's Promise Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam Beacon Press, 1996 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The book is very well written, and kudos are due to Heather Dune MacAdam for her ability to listen to, draw out, and summarize Mrs. Gelissen's memories. I found the footnotes relating events in the narrative to external documentation are very useful. I would have liked more of these, but I think their inclusion would have spoiled the overall flow and the book is better for their absence.

A particularly powerful theme in the book is the sense of monotony that Mrs. Gelissen and others survived: "4 a.m. Raus! Raus!"--this is repeated over and over in each section--followed by hard labor.

After reading "Rena's Promise" I could not imagine how she (and the other survivors) reconstructed their lives after 1945. It is an amazing thing.

I think "Rena's Promise" and Elie Wiesel's "Night" provide excellent personal accounts of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Neither are heavily footnoted historical references (Gutman's "Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp" being an example). I would also recommend "We Were in Auschwitz".

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Amazing

Even though I am already in college, I am not a big fan of reading, especailly for classes and especially for History class. However, the Holocaust is the one event I find the most interesting. Everyone knows Anne Frank's story, but Rena's story is much more compelling. I found myself breathing with her or having the same curiousities. Rena is amazing and I hope she reads this! Being one of the first women there and going through so much, well, I am in awe of her. It puts this horrifing event into a realistic perspective and since she is my age, it was easier to relate. Her life there was like a movie written for suspence. I couldn't put the book down for fear something would happen without me. How her spirit did not die with those people I will never know, but she is something special and so is any survivor of that hard to imagine event.

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A remarkable story by a honest, trustworthy, modest, woman

The first time I read Rena's Promise, I was inspired and surprised that the young woman seemed unaware of how truly
remarkable she was, and what she did. Her honesty, integrity,
trustworthiness, and promise to care for her sister, can only
be understood by reading her book. Her book is 1 of my 2 favorite
books written by Holocaust survibors'. I have read so many yet her book stays in my mind. As I read her book I felt like she had
taken my hand and I was right beside her as she struggled through
the daily survival of the death camps, protecting her sister.
If you haven't read her book, you have no idea what you have missed. I read that she lives in North Carolina, and I was there
working for six months. I have never written a fan letter to
a celebrity, yet I wanted to write one to her. More so I wanted
to meet her. I rate this book as a 12 STAR+

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