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The Nazis knew my name a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

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"In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS so...

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Main Authors: Hellinger, Magda, 1916-2006 (Author), Lee, Maya (Author), Brewster, David, 1965- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2021.
Edition:First Atria books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hellinger, Magda, > 1916-2006.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Slovak.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Jews > Slovakia > Michalovce > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives.
Michalovce (Slovakia) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Magda's story. Origins ; Deportation ; Auschwitz ; Birkenau ; Blockälteste ; Experimental block 10 ; Back to Birkenau ; Lagerälteste ; SS connections: Irma Grese ; SS connections: Kramer and Mengele ; Béla's story ; Resistance ; Death march ; Malchow ; Liberation
  • My mother moves on. How to build a new life ; The legacy of tattoo 2318
  • Epilogue
  • Notes on the postwar fates of prominent people in the story.

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