The captivating memoir of a spirited and glamorous young Jewish fashion designer who survived the Holocaust, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein. In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek Epstein arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her six-year journey through several camps during the Second World War, from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the forced labor in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After the liberation by the British in April 1945, she finally returned to Prague, a survivor. Franci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection, saying she was an electrician, resulting in an assignment to do electrical work in Hamburg, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. Franci had a no-nonsense attitude though she never lacked a sense of humor, and in this memoir, she offers her intense, candid, and sometimes funny account of those dark years, which included the women in her tight-knit circle of friends. Franci's War is a powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and also a testament to the strength and bravery of those who endured.