Hédi Fried Knihy

‘There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.’ Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour until the end of the war.Now ninety-four, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions about one of the darkest periods in human history. Questions like, ‘How was it to live in the camps?’, ‘Did you dream at night?’, ‘Why did Hitler hate the Jews?’, and ‘Can you forgive?’.With sensitivity and complete candour, Fried answers these questions and more in this deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.

Memoirs of a Holocaust survivor born in Sighet, Romania in 1924 (née Szmuk) who recounts her story of survival in the ghetto of Sighet, in Auschwitz, in forced labor camps in the area of Hamburg (Altona, Wilhelmshaven, Eidelstadt) and her transfer to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated by the British in April 1945, together with her sister. Their parents were murdered in Auschwitz. After the war they settled in Sweden where Hedi now works (as a psychologist) with Holocaust survivors and their offspring. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

Dies ist die Geschichte von einem Hund namens Bodri, von einem Kind, namens Hédi und ihrer Schwester Livia. Eine Geschichte von Überlebenden einer schlimmen Zeit, die nicht vollständig zu verstehen ist, aber nicht verschwiegen werden darf … Hédi Fried, Überlebende der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen, berichtet in einfachen Sätzen schon für junge Leser von dem, was ihr als Kind widerfahren ist. Sie ist eine der letzten Überlebenden, die davon erzählt, warum es so wichtig ist, über den Holocaust Bescheid zu wissen – damit es nie wieder passiert. Ein Buch, das zum Denken und zum Gespräch anregt.