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Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

ISBN: 1610391225

Title: Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Author: Millie Werber,Eve Keller

KDL Description:

This was a gentler holocaust story, very well written – but not as graphic as some, talking about the experience of a young Jewish woman during World War II – most of the details are from when she was about 15 until the war ends and she re-enters life outside of German control. So good that I read it in less than a day!
-Jacque at KDL’s Cascade Township branch

Amazon Description:

Judged only as a World War Two survivor’s chronicle, Millie Werber’s story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944, before being marched to a second armaments factory. She faced death many times; indeed she was certain that she would not survive. But she did.

Many years later, when she began to share her past with Eve Keller, the two women rediscovered the world of the teenage girl Millie had been during the war. Most important, Millie revealed her most precious private memory: of a man to whom she was married for a few brief months. He was—if not the love of her life—her first great unconditional passion. He died, leaving Millie with a single photograph taken on their wedding day, and two rings of gold that affirm the presence of a great passion in the bleakest imaginable time.