But the book also tells of magnificent concert performances, accomplished pieces of theatre and especially of exhilarating friendships in life and in death: throughout their crazy relationships, Jana Renée and her friends remained young, romantic girls, dreaming of true love and a happier future. One of the author’s greatest achievements was to depict the girls’ inextinguishable hope and vitality in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and this lies at the heart of this memoir, now published in German for the first time.