Details Of Books Those Who Save Us
| Title | : | Those Who Save Us |
| Author | : | Jenna Blum |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 479 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 2005 by Harcourt Books (first published April 5th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. World War II. Holocaust. War. Cultural. Germany |
Jenna Blum
Paperback | Pages: 479 pages Rating: 4.13 | 91158 Users | 6624 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | Those Who Save Us |
| ISBN: | 0156031663 (ISBN13: 9780156031660) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Anna Schlemmer |
| Setting: | Minneapolis, Minnesota(United States) Weimar(Germany) |
Rating Of Books Those Who Save Us
Ratings: 4.13 From 91158 Users | 6624 ReviewsPiece Of Books Those Who Save Us
A heart-wrenching story of one mother's unfathomable choices and sacrifices in order protect her child. More than a decade after publication, this book remains the gold standard for novels set during the Second World War. If you have not read it, you must.I would not have kept reading this had it not been my Book Club selection for this month. It is another Holocaust memoir type story but this time I am not sure exactly the point of the whole thing. It wore me down and I became weary of Anna and the Commandant's sex life! It just never ended and didn't seem to have a point after awhile. I think the story was way too long; it may have been a much more poignant short story. There just was too much repetitious detail that served no purpose as far as
Oh my. This was so good. I am not one for books about the Holocaust or for going back in forth in time. However, the writing, the characters, the story line and it's progression was spot on. What Anna went through to live and protect her daughter was remarkable. The author wove both the mother's and daughter 's experiences into an exquisite tapestry. The impact on each life is deep. Wow. This book is one of the best I've read on a while. Highly recommend.
This is a story about survival, love and loss during WWII in Weimar, Germany, near the Buchenwald concentration camp. It is told in a unique way, different from other historical fiction I have read in the past. The story begins before the war as the protagonist, Anna Brandt, a young Aryan woman and daughter, is destined to cater to her widowed fathers whims until he finds a suitor for her. In the meantime, Anna befriends a Jewish veterinarian, Max Stern, and spends her free time at his clinic,
No way was this an enjoyable book! It was excruciatingly difficult....but the end was beautiful, and that saved the book for me. Before choosing this book I read through reviews. One friend says in her review that the main character, Anna, a gentile German, was both naïve and uninformed when the story opens. I certainly agree. This detracts. Putting it another way, several of the characters behave unconvincingly. Their actions are construed. Three examples follow in the spoiler. (view spoiler)[I
The contemporary story was as compelling as the historical narrative which is set in Nazi Germany and focuses on the reaction of the German people to the brutality and horror of that war. I felt myself reflected as a lover of history to empathize with Trudy's passionate zeal to uncover the truths so long hidden from her. In contrast, I felt myself equally sympathizing and understanding why Anna was compelled to keep her own war secrets hidden. One of my favorite parts of the book is Anna telling
While visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, one encounters many horrifying exhibits. There is an huge atrium, with a ceiling which seems endlessly tall. Around this room, covering all of the wall surfaces, there are photographs. There are happy families posing for group photos, babies with their toothless grins, little girls with pigtails, boys flying kites, sober individual shots for graduations, little men at their Bar Mitzvahs,loving couples gazing into eachother's eyes - all
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