The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life

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The Road to Auschwitz is the autobiography of Hedi Fried, a fifteen-year-old living in Sighet, Romania, when war breaks out in 1939. In March 1944, Hedi’s circle of relatives, at the side of three thousand other Jews from her village, are confined to a ghetto, awaiting shipment to Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, amidst the horror, Hedi turns twenty, her sister, Livi, fifteen. As Hedi and Livi will later learn, their parents don’t live on.

In April 1945, the sisters are transported to Bergen-Belsen, two months before liberation. Upon liberation, Hedi renews her acquaintance with Michael, every other survivor from Sighet. They move to Sweden, marry, and ultimately have three sons. It’s the lack of Michael, when Hedi is only forty, that prompts this memoir. “It took me forty years to realize that I’m a witness and that it’s my task to tell what I experienced.”


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