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Fragments of Isabella

by Isabella Leitner

The deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment by the Nazis at the Auschwitz death camp. In 1944, on the morning of Isabella's birthday, she and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, Isabella and her siblings relied on one another's love and support to remain hopeful in the midst of the great evil surrounding them. With the voice of a poet, she reveals a humanity in a world of darkness. Thirty years after she escaped from the Nazis, Isabella wrote this powerful and luminous Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir. Hailed by Publishers Weeklyas "a celebration of the strength of the human spirit as it passes through fire," Fragments of Isabellahas become a classic of holocaust literature and human survival. This ebook features rare images from the author's estate.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?