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The Incredible True Story of a Young WW2 Resistance Fighter in Her Own Words
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The pacing and personal voice of Ruth makes for a gripping, focused story where the stakes are high. If you loved The Nightingale, you will love They Called Me Renée. - Heather Morris, internationally bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Extraordinary... a luminous portrait of...
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See moreThe devastatingly true story of Ruth Uzrad, a young Jewish Girl who changed her identity and became part of the underground resistance during WW2
The devastatingly true story of Ruth Uzrad, a young Jewish Girl who changed her identity and became part of the underground resistance during WW2
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The pacing and personal voice of Ruth makes for a gripping, focused story where the stakes are high. If you loved The Nightingale, you will love They Called Me Renée. - Heather Morris, internationally bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Extraordinary... a luminous portrait of survival and a powerful reminder of the light that can be found in humanity's darkest hours. - Ellie Midwood, bestselling and award-winning author of The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz
Beautifully written and deeply affecting. - Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo, shortlisted for the Women's Prize
Extraordinary. Heart-rending. Inspirational. A gripping chronicle of true courage, heroism and resistance, in the face of ultimate evil. A triumph. - Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo
An extraordinary true story of courageous survival and fearless resistance against the Nazis. Beautifully written. - Robert Verkaik, author of The Traitor of Colditz
A gripping and heartbreaking account of courage and coming-of-age. In honest and authentic prose she shares her gripping story. - Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank meets The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour in this extraordinary story of a Jewish girl trying to save herself, her family, and members of the Jewish community from Nazi capture during the Holocaust.
When her hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, Ruth takes her younger sister and boards a train bound for safety. But with the war progressing swiftly through Europe, they are soon forced to separate and Ruth finds herself joining the ranks of the secret French resistance.
Armed with a new identity and a burning desire to fight the forces that tore her family apart, Ruth becomes Renée. Under her new guise, she impersonates a Gestapo member to save a baby from capture, is held and questioned by Nazis whilst delivering forged identification documents, and smuggles Jewish children across the border into Switzerland. But even as she risks capture every day, the promise of ever being reunited with her family slips further and further away...
Previously published with the title Resistance Girl
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ISBN: 9781800964396
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Monoray
Illustration: n/a
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Ruth (Schutz) Uzrad was born in Berlin in 1925, the eldest of three daughters, to a religious Jewish family. During WWII she escaped to Belgium and continued her flight to the south of France, then Spain before finally arriving in Israel in 1945. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 90.
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