Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz

By: Isabella Leitner

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Synopsis: The deeply moving, Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir of a young Jewish woman&’s imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp. In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, she and her siblings relied on one another&’s love and support to remain hopeful in the midst of the great evil surrounding them. In Fragments of Isabella, Leitner reveals a glimpse of humanity in a world of darkness. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as &“a celebration of the strength of the human spirit as it passes through fire,&” this powerful and luminous Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir, written thirty years after the author&’s escape from the Nazis, has become a classic of holocaust literature and human survival. This ebook features rare images from the author&’s estate.