In 1942, Franci Rabinek arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto 40 miles from her home in Prague. It was the beginning of a three-year journey that led her to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen Belsen. Meeting the notorious Dr. Mengele, this dress designer told him that she was an electrician, a lie that both endangered and saved her life. Recounting the tight friendships she developed with other women in the camps, Rabinek's candid and sometimes funny memoir includes an afterword by her daughter, author Helen Epstein.