Her Name is Elfriede
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Her Name is Elfriede is a deeply human account drawn from a real manuscript written in the aftermath of the Second World War. The story follows Josef, an ordinary Austrian man arrested as “politically unreliable” in 1944 and transported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. His journey is told in clear, unsentimental detail: the arrest, the brutality of the camp system, and the long walk home after liberation. Interwoven with his story is the quiet revelation that the daughter he never knew he had, was born one day before American forces opened the gates.
Decades later, Elfriede discovers her father’s papers in an attic and begins piecing together the life he never fully spoke about. What emerges is a stark, intimate portrait of silence, and the fragile thread that kept a family together.