The Last Goodbye

In the summer of 1944, as the Russian army advanced, 17-year-old Edith Hofmann was forced into a cattle truck with the remaining Jewish population of the Lodz Ghetto - bound for Auschwitz. For most, it was a one-way journey. Edith was one of the few selected for labour, her hair shaved, her identity stripped away. Deported again to the camp at Kristianstadt in Silesia, she was put to work in an underground munitions factory, surviving through courage, resilience, and the faint hope of freedom. A powerful and personal account of Holocaust survival, this memoir stands alongside Night by Elie Wiesel and The Choice by Edith Eger.