{"id":860,"date":"2020-04-11T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T01:34:45","slug":"francis-war-a-womans-story-of-survival-by-franci-rabinek-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/francis-war-a-womans-story-of-survival-by-franci-rabinek-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Franci&#8217;s War: A Woman&#8217;s Story of Survival, by Franci Rabinek Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"232\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Francis-war-jacket.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Francis-war-jacket.jpg 232w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Francis-war-jacket-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Francis-war-jacket-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  I love non-fiction about strong people who struggle through frightening events to somehow survive all the odds. These stories grab me because I want to believe we can persevere through the worst, but knowing that survival will take determination and hard work in order to defend our lives and beliefs. <em>Franci\u2019s War: A Woman\u2019s Story of Survival<\/em> by Franci Rabinek Epstein, is that kind of story.&nbsp; Franci was a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birrkenau camps. Her daughter, Helen Epstein, has edited her mother\u2019s journal and divided it into chapters to help the reader follow the story.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Franci was born in Prague, in 1920.&nbsp; At the age of nineteen she became the owner of her mother\u2019s couture shop, but the Nazi\u2019s had invaded Czechoslovakia and her world was rapidly changing.&nbsp; Franci and her parents were arrested by the Gestapo, released, she got married, got pregnant\u2014and decided on an abortion&#8211;and in the next year, Nazi\u2019s took everything away and sent her to a concentration camp. She survived, in part, because she told them a lie, that &nbsp;she was an electrician. Her story is amazing, honest, heartbreaking and inspiring, and, in my opinion, a must read to understand our past&#8211;so we never repeat it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I love non-fiction about strong people who struggle through frightening events to somehow survive all the odds. These stories grab me because I want to believe we can persevere through the worst, but knowing that survival will take determination &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/francis-war-a-womans-story-of-survival-by-franci-rabinek-epstein\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}