The Violinist by Sarah Gaitanos
Klara Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely only to be transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. Her story is both fascinating and heart wrenching, a truly important document not only of the Holocaust but of the postwar New Zealand culture and the biography of a fascinating and determined woman.
Joanna just adored this book, it's not only a truly remarkable tale, but one told with the clearheadedness needed in the face of such adversity.
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NZ $39.90
incl GST
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