Not Even a Number: Surviving Lager C ~ Auschwitz II-Birkenau Where Life Isn’t Even Worth a Number

by Edith Perl, Lindsay Preston

Rifchu and her family were living normal, happy lives until anti-Semitism first started running rampant like a disease throughout her small village in the Sub-Carpathian mountains. Rifchu began to realize that her happy world was about to crumble. April 1944, Rifchu and her family were ripped from their home and taken to the Mukacheve Ghetto. The conditions were harsh and virulent but the entire family was alive and together. One month later, Rifchu’s family was severed forever when they were taken to Auschwitz II- Birkenau. Before Rifchu’s and her mother were separated her mother made Rifchu promise to take care of her sisters, survive and to tell the world about the atrocities of the Holocaust. Rifchu had no idea how she was going to survive, Auschwitz, the world’s largest Jewish graveyard, and Dr. Mengele. So she changed her name and spent everyday determined to keep her promise to her mother.

254 pages, Paperback

Published October 26, 2015