02531cam a2200421 i 4500 516894429 TxAuBib 20220321120000.0 210520s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021019898 9781982181222 HRD 27.00 1982181222 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Blau, Magda Hellinger, 1916-2006,. The Nazis knew my name [BOOK] : a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz / Magda Hellinger, and Maya Lee ; with David Brewster. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2021. 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS and risking execution. Through her inner strength and shrewd survival instincts, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and even some of Auschwitz’s most notorious Nazi senior officers. Provided by publisher. 20220321. Blau, Magda Hellinger 1916-2006. Birkenau (Concentration camp) Biography. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Slovak. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. Jews Slovakia Michalovce Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors Biography. Michalovce (Slovakia) Biography. Lee, Maya, author. Brewster, David, 1965-