A Girl Called Renee

Name: A Girl Called Renee
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruth Uzrad
ISBN: 9781977343253

Author: Ruth Uzrad

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

Terrified after her father's arrest by the Nazis, Ruth flees to Belgium. This is the unbelievable autobiographical story of Ruth Uzrad, a Jewish teenager whose life was turned upside down by the Nazi regime. After her father was arrested one night from their Berlin apartment by the Gestapo, Ruth's mother sends thirteen-year-old Ruth and her two younger sisters out on their escape route across Europe by train to the safety of Belgium. But then the Nazis also reach Belgium, driving Ruth into the French Jewish underground . . . Later, when the Nazis conquer Belgium, Ruth and one of her sisters escape to France, leaving the youngest sister behind to be taken in by a Belgian foster family. Later, Ruth joins the Jewish underground movement in France and takes on a false identity and a new name, Renee. As an underground fighter, she participates in special operations aimed at rescuing Jews in danger. When the German police set out to arrest her, she manages to cross the border into Spain and eventually makes her way to Israel, where she makes her home and spends the rest of her life.

About Ruth Uzrad

Ruth Uzrad was born in Berlin in 1925, the eldest of three daughters, to a religious Jewish family. During World War II she escaped to Belgium and continued her flight to the south of France, where she spent her teenage years before finally arriving in Israel in 1945. In Israel she became a pioneer and founder of a new kibbutz on the conflict-ridden northern border, in close proximity to Syria. In later years, she studied nursing and became the kibbutz nurse. Together with her husband, David, she raised four sons. She passed away in 2015 at the age of ninety, leaving behind a large family, including many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rajan

The persecution of Jews was a sad incident. It ruined many lives. One such girl was Ruth Uzrad who escaped from there to Belgium. Just imagine the horror of two young girls in a train with no identification papers. She is put in an orphanage by a kind woman. Then she goes to France and take a pseudo......more

Goodreads review by Majanka

Book Review originally published here: [URL not allowed] I was so excited to start reading A Girl Called Renee because part of the book takes place in Belgium, the country where I live. The story certainly didn’t dissapoint, and I was really impressed by Ruth, and how strong sh......more

Goodreads review by Doris

4-4 1/2 stars. The story is definitely worth reading. One young girls story starting in Germany 1939, traveling to Belgium, France, Spain and finally Israel. I used the maps on my iPad to keep track of where she was during this horrific journey. Hard to fathom having to go through all this and live......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G.

The book is enchanting, despite the time and era of holocaust that the story is set in, because of an innocence brought to the telling by the protagonist. It's as if it's the young girl speaking to the reader at age of five, seven, thirteen, ... and often she writes as if reminiscing or conversing,......more