My lucky star

The author recounts the shape her life took at the hands of the Nazis, describing her forced relocation to the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague at the age of nineteen, where she dreamed of becoming an actress; her internment at the Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen camps; and her rescue in 1945 by an anonymous British officer.