Those Who Save Us
Language: English
1939-1945 1939-1945 - Germany 1939-1945 - Underground movements Bildungsromans Fiction Fiction - Historical General German American women Germany Germany - History - 1933-1945 Historical Historical - General Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) Literary Sagas Underground movements War & Military War Stories World War Young Women
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: Apr 18, 2005
Description:
SUMMARY: 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.