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Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family - life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details she recounts what it was like.

"Maria Goldberg ist 12 Jahre alt, als die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten beginnt. Zusammen mit ihren Freunden erlebt Maria, wie das neue Regime das öffentliche Leben zu beherrschen beginnt. Und wie mehr und mehr die persönlichen Freiheiten eingeschränkt werden. Speziell für Menschen, die als anders gelten. Maria ist einer davon." Dieser Roman gehört zur Serie "Verlorene Jugend" von Fee-Christine Aks über die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.

Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age. Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental-health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.