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{en} Inge Auerbacher. I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust (New York, NY: Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers, 1986).

• See Inge Auerbacher (F / Germany, 1934), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Germany> <Theresienstadt> / <Liberation of Theresienstadt> / <United States>

Abstract

"The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems ... Inge Auerbacher’s childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child—until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge’s family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family’s harrowing story—and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive."--Publisher description.

About the Author

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Inge Auerbacher was born in Kippenheim, Germany on Dec 31, 1934. Deported with her parents to Theresienstad, where they spent nearly three years until liberation on May 8, 1945. After the war, she immigrated with her family to New York City in May 1946. She graduated from Queens College and spent 38 years working as a chemist. Wrote several books on the Holocaust.