This is Zdenka Fantlová's incredible story of surviving the Holocaust. As one of the few living eye witnesses to the horror of the Holocaust, to which she lost her entire family, she is determined to tell her great story to as many people as possible.

The Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

Biographies & Memoirs

Fantlová, Zdenka

Community & Culture

McNidder & Grace

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 reunited. 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 humor 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.

The Tin Ring: My Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust

McNidder and Grace

A moving tale of courage, love, tenacity, and hope, this remarkable memoir documents one woman’s experience during the Holocaust. Enamored with a man named Arno, Zdenka Fantlová, a young Czech-Jewish woman, is separated from her soul-mate due to the German invasion. During a brief reunion, Arno proposes to 19-year-old Zdenka with a ring made from tin. Following Zdenka from Terezin through Auschwitz and Kurzbach to BergenBelsen, this heartbreaking account dwells less on the horrors of extermination camps and more on the compassion of the friends and family who shared in her ordeal.

The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death

History

World

Northumbria Univ Pr

"My Lucky Star" Dedicated to the unknown British Army officer who saved her life in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, this is the affecting and uplifting memoir of Zdenka Fantlova, who shares in her direct, unsentimental style day-to-day life during the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Fantlova’s astonishing memory and remarkable love of life combine to produce a historical document that will edify and inspire its readers. A moving story of extraordinary courage and integrity, "My Lucky Star" is also a reflection on the magical power of true love, a paean to the triumph of calmness and compassion over the machinery of hatred and murder, and a testament to the strength of the human spirit as it approaches death, struggles to survive, and is reborn.

My Lucky Star

Historical

Herodias

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