A01=Zdenka Fantlova
Author_Zdenka Fantlova
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Product details
- ISBN 9780857162298
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2022
- Publisher: McNidder & Grace
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova'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. When he 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 - risking her life for the tin ring. 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.
Zdenka Fantlova 1922-2022. Zdenka celebrated her 100th birthday in 2022 and at the time was one of the few living eye-witnesses to the horror of the Holocaust in which she lost her entire family. Zdenka survived six concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and Belsen - the worst of all. Zdenka took an active part in radio, TV and speaking events and welcomed every opportunity to share her story to ensure that the Holocaust was never forgotten. Zdenka Fantlova died peacefully at home in West London in November 2022.
