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Those Who Save UsThose Who Save Us

Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

4.2(23)on Hardcover

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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.

Details

ISBN-10
0156031663
OL Work ID
OL6029416W

Subjects

German American womenUnderground movementsWorld War, 1939-1945Young womenHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)FictionHistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924War Underground movementsFiction, sagasFiction, historicalLarge type booksFiction, historical, generalWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionGermany, fictionFiction, war & military

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