Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival

Celia Clement · Eva Heymann · Judith Kashti · Alexandra Littauer

Dec 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Christa Lewis

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Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison. The memoirs of Alexandra, age eleven, and her sisters, fifteen year old Eva and fourteen year old Judith, interweave as they recount the true story of their escape from the Nazis. Leaving behind their life of luxury, the girls describe unimaginable hunger, deprivation, and fear. Family love, music, and the close friendship of strangers are the essential ingredients that sustain them through the hardships they face. A narrative backdrop threads through the story, providing the socio-political context. From a historical perspective and from the three sisters' witness accounts, the listener will come to understand the progression of antisemitism in Germany and France, the course by which Hitler dismantled democracy, the role France adopted as Nazi collaborators, and how the Swiss policies towards Jews were executed. This audiobook includes supplemental material in printable PDF format.

About the author

Celia Clement received her BA from Cornell and her MSW from Columbia. Celia is a retired school social worker with a specialty in bullying prevention. She and her husband raised three children. She lives in upstate New York, with her husband in an 1830s farmhouse.

Eva Heymann is coauthor of Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival.

Judith Kashti is coauthor of Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival.

Alexandra Littauer was a lecturer of French at Cornell and is coauthor of Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival.

Christa Lewis and her pseudonym Pippa Jayne have narrated 265 audiobooks between them. The recipient of eight AudioFile Earphones Awards in a variety of genres, Christa has also garnered a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listeners Award, a Listeners Choice Award, and two Audie nominations.

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