- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
The Tin Ringis a moving memoir of love, loss and hope. This new edition has been published in celebration of Zdenka's 100th birthday.
Zdenka's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live.
When Arno gave her the ring he said, 'That's for our engagement. And, to keep you safe. If we are both alive when the war ends I will find you.'The ring was the symbol of his love – a tin ring – that gave her the hope to endure unimaginable suffering and survive in the belief that they would one day be re-united.
Zdenka protected this little tin ring with her life and with astonishing determination. Never falling into destructive self-pity, her compassion for other people, her sense of humour and the ability to take remarkable risks, are just part of Zdenka's indomitable spirit.
Zdenka survived six concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and Belsen – the worst of all. In the last chaotic days of the war in Belsen she crawled to a Red Cross post. There she was saved by an unknown British soldier to whom the book is dedicated.
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Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Recommendation by Renos K Papadopoulos
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Grandfather
- 2: A fateful meeting
- 3: Moving to another town
- 4: A new little sister
- 5: School
- 6: The Jewish holidays
- 7: Yugoslavia
- 8: The piano
- 9: Dancing classes
- 10: A trip to Prague
- 11: Political clouds begin to gather
- 12: Fred Astaire – You are my lucky star
- 13: The 1938 holidays and Dr Mandelík
- 14: The German occupation
- 15: Prague and The English Institute
- 16: My father is arrested by the Gestapo
- 17: New love
- 18: The Jewish transports
- 19: AK1 and AK2
- 20: Our departure
- 21: Terezín camp
- 22: Love in a cellar
- 23: Life in Terezín
- 24: The kitchen
- 25: Marta and her nurse’s uniform
- 26: The woods of Křivoklát
- 27: “Can you cry, miss?”
- 28: Theatre in Terezín
- 29: Dancing under the gallows
- 30: Ben Akiba was no liar – or was he?
- 31: Life goes on
- 32: The Potemkin Village façade
- 33: The Czech theatre carries on
- 34: Esther
- 35: Georges Dandin
- 36: Terezín is wound up
- 37: Auschwitz-Birkenau
- 38: Next stop eastward – Kurzbach
- 39: Imaginary feasts, a needle and other wonders
- 40: Nana’s prophecies
- 41: The death march
- 42: Gross Rosen camp
- 43: Onward to Mauthausen
- 44: The SS man with his revolver
- 45: Nana’s end, and the journey across Czech territory
- 46: Bergen-Belsen
- 47: The typhus epidemic
- 48: Condemned to death
- 49: The British
- 50: One last effort
- 51: My lucky star
- 52: The war ends
- 53: Sweden
- 54: On the production line
- 55: Christmas in London
- 56: Working at the Czech Embassy
- 57: Journey to Australia
- 58: Arriving in Australia
- 59: The wedding reception
- 60: The proposal
- Epilogue: Goodbye forever
- Photographs
- Zdenka Fantlová today
- Copyright
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