The Oasis: A Memoir of Love and Survival in a Concentration Camp

by Petru Popescu

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Shares the romance that unfolded between Czechoslovakian freedom fighter Mirek Friedman and his wife, Blanka Davidovich, in German concentration camp Dachau 3b, and how their love survived despite threats of death.

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Good love story at a work camp in Germany where the couple survive the Holocaust. I thought it might be cheesy because of the garish cover, but it was really well done. Told from alternating points of view. (

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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |

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National Jewish Book Award (Finalist – Autobiography/Memoir – 2002)

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Shares the romance that unfolded between Czechoslovakian freedom fighter Mirek Friedman and his wife, Blanka Davidovich, in German concentration camp Dachau 3b, and how their love survived despite threats of death.

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The Oasis (2001) is a novel based on the memoirs of Mirek Friedman and Blanka Davidovich, the author's parents-in-law.

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