Un amore ad Auschwitz. Edek e Mala: una storia vera
by Paci Francesca, Paci FrancescaA truly legendary love story — inexplicably and unjustly forgotten — that the journalist Francesca Paci has ably reconstructed in all its twists and turns thanks to the archival documents she has brought to light in the Auschwitz state museum and to the eye-witness accounts of the very few inmates who survived and were still alive.
Edek and Mala: a young Polish political prisoner and a beautiful and lively Jewish girl fall in love at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mala Zimetbaum is fascinating, charismatic and cultured — she speaks numerous languages and has been picked by the SS as an interpreter —and also very generous at heart, going out of her way to help her inmates. Edward Galin\’ski, Edek, is also an extraordinary man. Among the very first to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, barely two months after the opening of the lager Heinrich Himmler had created, Edek has seen the murdering machine grow and expand but won\’t give up.
In 1944, with defeat looming large over the Third Reich, in the death camps murder continues unabated. On June 24, Mala and Edek succeed in escaping. They bribe a Nazi officer into selling his uniform. Edek disguised as a Nazi leads Mala out of the camp by showing a fake permit. But their dream of freedom is soon over as they are caught at the Polish frontier in circumstances that are still unclear.
- Publishing house UTET
- Year of publication 2016
- Number of pages 256
- ISBN 9788851136444
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- Foreign Rights sold Spanish (Suma de letras), Polish (Prószyński Media), Portuguese (2020 Editora), Croatian (24sata d.o.o), Czech (Vikaend)
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- Price 14.00 €
Paci Francesca, Paci Francesca
Francesca Paci is a correspondent of La Stampa from Jerusalem and London. She has been awarded with many International prizes for her work in the understanding of cultures and different ethnic and religious traditions. Among her publications: Islam and violence. Speak Italian Muslims; Where to die Christians. From Egypt to Indonesia, traveling in places where Christianity is a minority persecuted; If I close my eyes I die.