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Hedi Fried was nineteen when she and her family were transported to Auschwitz, where her parents died and she and her sister were forced into hard labour. Now ninety-four, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions with sensitivity and candour. This is a deeply human book for people of all ages that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.
About the author
Hédi Fried (b. 1924) is an author and psychologist. She is deeply committed to working for democratic values and against racism. She was born in the town of Sighet, in Romania, was transported to Auschwitz in 1944, and worked in several labour camps, eventually ending up in Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, she came to Sweden with her sister, and has lived there ever since.
Her bestselling autobiography, Fragments of a Life: the road to Auschwitz, was published in English and Swedish in the 1990s.
Alice E. Olsson is a literary translator, writer, and editor working across Swedish and English. She has served as the Cultural Affairs Adviser at the Embassy of Sweden in London and is the recipient of a fellowship as well as multiple grants from the Swedish Arts Council. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at University College London, specialising in literature and human rights.
Summary
An Auschwitz survivor answers young people’s questions about the Holocaust with sensitivity and candour.
Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour. Now ninety-seven, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions.
This is a deeply human book for people of all ages that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.
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‘Honest and insightful.’
