Those Who Save Us by: Jenna Blum
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780156031660
ISBN: 0156031663
Label: Adult
Manufacturer: Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: May 02, 2005
Publisher: Adult
Studio: Adult
Sales Rank: 2194
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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.
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I loved this book, although the subject matter made it very difficult to read at times. It's a survival story that will leave you wondering what you would have done in the same situation in order to protect your child and make it out alive. Well written, beautiful and heartbreaking.
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Guilt, fear and prejudice come in many forms. In both this book and the also great "Sarah's Key", WWII survivors' guilt of things they did and didn't do not only haunt them for their entire lives, but the lingering guilt severely affects the way they raise their children. This is an interesting (fictional but believable) insight into a German woman's struggle for her and her daughter to survive the war and how the terror never ends for her. It also helps address the question: "Why did the Germans ... Read More
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Jenna Blum's "Those Who Save Us" chronicles the Holocaust-era journey of Anna Schlemmer, beginning in 1939, as she navigates the treacherous waters of everyday life in the Third Reich and makes difficult choices in order to survive, choices that will haunt her fifty years later even after she escapes Germany as a war bride in 1945 and settles in Minnesota.
Anna's daughter Gertrude, Trudy for short, is a tenured professor of history specializing in German women's roles during WWII. Aloof ... Read More
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This was an instant page turner. I like how the author went back and forth between the past and the present and the way she described all of the main characters. I thought the ending could have been better but at the same time it made sense.
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This story starts with a young girl whose mother passed away and her irritable and erratic father makes strict and demanding look sweet. It is also told about 40 years later from the daughter's point of view as she is researching German, non-Jewish people to get their thoughts on what happened in Germany during that time, what they saw but didn't tell, etc.
This is an amazing book. It was written for adults, there is a great deal of sex, as was standard during this time that the German ... Read More
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