The Tin Ring: My Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust

The Tin Ring is a moving memoir of love, loss, and hope. Zdenka Fantlova was sent to Terezin concentration camp and given a tin ring by her first love Arno. She protected it with her life and survived six camps, risking her life for it. In the last days of the war, she was saved by a British soldier.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: McNidder & Grace

The Tin Ring is a moving memoir of love, loss, and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was forever altered when she was sent to the Terezin concentration camp. Here, she received a humble engraved tin ring from her first love, Arno. When he gave her the ring, he said, "That's for our engagement. And to keep you safe." If we are both alive when the war ends, I will find you."

The ring was a symbol of his love, a tin ring that gave her the hope to endure unimaginable suffering and survive in the belief that they would one day be re-united. Zdenka protected this little tin ring with her life and with astonishing determination. Never falling into destructive self-pity, her compassion for other people, her sense of humor, and the ability to take remarkable risks, are just part of Zdenka's indomitable spirit.

Zdenka survived six concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and Belsen, the worst of all. Risking her life for the tin ring, she crawled to a Red Cross post in the last chaotic days of the war in Belsen. There, she was saved by an unknown British soldier to whom the book is dedicated.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780857162298
Edition number: Revised ed