Always Remember Your Name

Description:

On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their aunt, and cousin Sergio, they were deported to Auschwitz. Over 230,000 children were deported to the camp, where Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, performed deadly experiments on them. Only a few dozen children survived, Tati and Andra among them. Tati, Andra, and Sergio were separated from their mothers upon arrival. But Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made them memorize her number and told them to “always remember your name.” In keeping this promise to their mother, the sisters were able to be reunited with their parents when WWII ended.

subjects: Biography,  Childhood and youth,  Holocaust survivors,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Personal narratives,  Jewish children in the Holocaust,  Sisters,  Survivants de l'Holocauste,  Biographies,  Holocauste, 1939-1945,  Récits personnels,  Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste,  Sœurs,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General,  Auschwitz (Concentration camp),  Jews,  Italian Personal narratives,  Asia, history,  Jewish women in the Holocaust,  Kind,  Überlebender,  Konzentrationslager Auschwitz,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00958866

People: Andra Bucci (1939-),  Liliana Bucci (1937-)

Places: Italy