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Summary: More than words can say!!!!
Review: A deeply moving and vivid story of survival! I will think of Rena and Danka on May 2nd of every year and always when I see red and white carnations together! I've read numerous books on the holocaust, from memoirs, bios, etc., this one was so moving! Highly recommend!!!! Let us all NEVER forget!!!!!
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Summary: More than words can say!!!!
Review: A deeply moving and vivid story of survival! I will think of Rena and Danka on May 2nd of every year and always when I see red and white carnations together! I've read numerous books on the holocaust, from memoirs, bios, etc., this one was so moving! Highly recommend!!!! Let us all NEVER forget!!!!!
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Summary: A testimony of love, survival and triumph
Review: By: Joe E. White Rena's Promise is the beautifully told story of two remarkable young women in their early twenties who endure and survive nearly three and one half years as prisoners of the Nazis in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck. The love that Rena has for her younger sister, Danka, sustains her and helps her to endure the atrocities and indignities forced upon them on a daily basis by the Nazis. During the time they are prisoners, Rena never once forgets the promise to her mother to take care of her younger sister. There are numerous times when Rena unhesitatingly gives up her daily crust of bread in exchange for medicine or a much needed salve for Danka. And at times when Rena is able to "organize" an extra tidbit of food such as a tiny piece of potato peeling, she meticulously divides it and without exception shares it with her beloved sister. Although Rena is the stronger of the two sisters, Danka's strength emerges during the death march.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: 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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Summary: Danka's Grandson
Review: Hey everyone, I am Danka (Dina) Brandel's grandson, Andrew Brandel. Rena is my great aunt. It's really great to hear all of your praise about the book, and that you enjoyed reading about the stories I grew up on. My grandma gave these first hand accounts often, especially when I was younger and I know our whole family was very excited when my Tante Rena wrote it all down. They are both as amazing people in real life as they are portrayed in the story, I can assure you first hand. Anyway, I am glad you all enjoyed their story!
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Summary: The Best!!!
Review: My son sent me this book and I loved it. I have always felt that I was a Jew in the Holocaust and a lot of the dreams and fears I have were shown in this book. If you like this kind of material-please do not miss this one.
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Summary: the best account ever
Review: rena's promis is one of the best accounts of consintration camps i have ever read. it shows how two sisters fight together and stand together when all the odds are against them. rena never leaves her sister's side and together, they stand up to the forces against them, and bake it through the consintration camps together. this book was heart wrenching, but you always love the two girls and the people who help them through out the book. this book makes you want to just run up and give these two girls a hug; it really is one of the best accounts of the brutality of the S.S. i have ever read, and i will always remember this book.
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Summary: Moving And Beautifull
Review: Rena's Promise is a most moving and beautifull Holocaust book, and without all the gore, it still shows the atrocity that was hapenning during the holocaust. Rena also manages to stay un-bitter about her past in the Dark War, making this book a classic memoir to the dead. Astonishing and breath taking, you will be held captive by the past, held in this book.
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Summary: Rena's Promise is a testimony of love, survival & triumph.
Review: Rena's Promise is the beautifully told story of two remarkable young women in their early twenties who endure and survive nearly three and one half years as prisoners of the Nazis in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck. The love that Rena has for her younger sister, Danka, sustains her and helps her to endure the atrocities and indignities forced upon them on a daily basis by the Nazis. During the time they are prisoners, Rena never once forgets the promise to her mother to take care of her younger sister. There are numerous times when Rena unhesitatingly gives up her daily crust of bread in exchange for medicine or a much needed salve for Danka. And at times when Rena is able to "organize" an extra tidbit of food such as a tiny piece of potato peeling, she meticulously divides it and without exception shares it with her beloved sister. Although Rena is the stronger of the two sisters, Danka's strength emerges during the death march when Rena becomes so weak she cannot stand and walk without assistance. Danka refuses to leave her and with the help of a friend, they support Rena until she regains sufficient strength to walk. In the mist of thousands of starving prisoners when a crust of bread could mean the difference of life or death, Rena retained both dignity and honesty. She was once chosen unanimously by more than a hundred women prisoners with whom she worked to divide ten Red Cross packages of food that miraculously made their way into Rena's block. Numerous footnotes are provided by Rena's freelance co-author which helps the reader to place the events of Rena's story into the sequential order of previously documented facts of the Holocaust. Rena's Promise is a testimony of how the love for her sister gave her the will to go on and how something so simple as the offering by a Nazi of a rag to clean her beaten and bloody face was viewed as a great act compassion.
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Summary: A remarkable story by a honest, trustworthy, modest, woman
Review: 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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