Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her the ring he said, "That's for our engagement. And to keep you safe. If we are both alive when the war ends I will find you." Arno was sent East on a penal transport later that same day. Zdenka survived six concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and Belsen - the worst of all - risking her life for the tin ring. In the last chaotic days of the war in Belsen she crawled to a Red Cross post. There she was saved by an unknown British soldier to whom the book is dedicated. A unique and incredible story of love, human endurance and will power.

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1922 in Blatná, Czechoslovakia. In 1925 her family moved to Rokycany (west of Prague). In 1940 Fantlová's father was arrested; he was interned in various camps and died in 1945 on a death march. In January 1942, Fantlová was deported to Theresienstadt with her stepmother, brother, and sister. Describes cultural activities in Theresienstadt, especially musical theater, in which she participated. In October 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz, where Fantlová's stepmother was killed. Her brother was sent to Gleiwitz and died there. Fantlová and her sister were taken to the Kurzbach labor camp, and from there to Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen, where her sister perished and Fantlová was liberated. In July 1945 she was sent for treatment to Sweden and remained there.