My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List

by Rena Finder with Joshua M. Greene
Genre:  Memoir

Rena was only 13 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and forced her family into the Krakow ghetto.  From there, she and her mother worked as slave laborers at a factory where food was scarce.  But there situation was not as dire as that of many others because they were working in a factory owned by Oskar Schindler who did what he could to make sure his prisoners were fed and healthy.  He had to do this under the watchful eyes of Nazi guards so when he learned that his factory was to be closed and his prisoners were about to be sent to concentration camps, he came up with a plan to transport his prisoners to a new location in Czechoslovakia.  This group of people became known as "Schlindler's List."  For Rena and her mother though, there was a nearly life ending mistake, that sent them to Auschwitz instead of Czechoslovakia.  But Schlindler again came through for them and was able to get them out just in time.