{"product_id":"fragments-of-isabella-a-memoir-of-auschwitz-paperback","title":"Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsabella Leitner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIrving A. Leitner\u003c\/b\u003e (Epilogue by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFragments of Isabella\u003c\/i\u003e, Leitner reveals a glimpse of humanity in a world of darkness. Hailed by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabella Leitner (1921-2009) was born and raised in Hungary. On her twenty-third birthday, she was deported to Auschwitz along with her mother, four sisters, and brother, an experience she wrote about in her acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eFragments of Isabella\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in 1978 and named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. A motion picture based on the book was produced by the Abbey Theater in Ireland. In 1945, the author immigrated to the United States and married Irving A. Leitner, who served in a US Air Force bomber squadron during World War II. The mother of two sons, Peter and Richard, whom she considered \"her greatest victory over Hitler,\" Leitner also wrote \u003ci\u003eSaving the Fragments: From Auschwitz to New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Lie: A True Story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 121\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760596156704,"sku":"9781504049351","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ed1b24756f4d70092962e686ebde868.webp?v=1780184298","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fragments-of-isabella-a-memoir-of-auschwitz-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}