Mimi of Novy Bohumin Czechoslovakia

<p>Mimi Rubin had fond memories of growing up in Nov�� Bohum��n Czechoslovakia a place that ten thousand people called home. It was a tranquil town until September 1 1939 when the German army invaded the city. From that day forward eighteen-yearold Mimi would face some of the harshest moments of her life.</p><p>This memoir follows Mimi's story-from her idyllic life in Nov�� Bohum��n before the invasion to being transported to a Jewish ghetto to living in three different German concentration camps and finally to liberation. It tells of the heartbreaking loss of her parents grandmother and countless other friends and relatives. It tells of the tempered joys of being reunited with her sister and of finding love marrying and raising a family.</p><p>A compelling firsthand account <i>Mimi of Nov�� Bohum��n Czechoslovakia: A Young Woman's Survival of the Holocaust</i> weaves the personal yet horrifying details of Mimi's experience with historical facts about this era in history. This story helps keep alive the memory of the millions of innocent men women and children who died in the German concentration camps during the 1930s and 1940s.</p>