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The Klara Wizel Story
by
Danny Naten and R.J. Gifford
Compiled and published by Beverly Naten
And then the tattoo... Numbers were painfully inked onto our arms. Mine was A-7845. This was the Nazis' way of permanently dehumanizing us especially for traditional Jewish families like ours where tattooing is prohibited.
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At sixteen years old, Klara is full of
life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when she and her family are
swept up with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews and forcibly transported to
one of the world's most infamous concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau. There
Klara comes face to face with one of history’s most infamous Nazi doctors,
nicknamed The Great Selector and the Murderer in White, Josef Mengele. Klara
watches in horror as Mengele sends her parents, her younger brother, and her
older sister to the gas chamber, leaving Klara and her two remaining sisters to
be housed like animals in the women's barracks. There they live in constant
fear of Mengele choosing them for one of his cruel scientific experiments.
As the Russian allies close in, Mengele steps up his selection process and
sentences Klara to the gas chamber. But in a miraculous turn of events, Klara
escapes both the chamber and Auschwitz itself and makes her way across war-torn
Europe to her hometown.
This
is one of the most extraordinary and inspirational books
of survival and resilience in the face
of deep loss and extreme cruelty.
