Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum

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Those Who Save Us

	Those Who Save Us Jenna Blum Harvest Books, 2005 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 86 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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HIGHLY recommend!

Blum is an excellent storyteller - I highly recommend this historical novel chosen by my book group for its fall selection. Each character became lifelike and it was hard to put the book down as I quickly read chapter after chapter. The reader is given the civilian German's look at the Nazi era. If Ms. Blum continues to write novels, I will continue to read them!

great read

If you like Holacaust drama, this is accurate and real enough to draw you in and be taken along on this incredible story

easy read despite heavy subject

This story takes the reader back and forth between Anna, a young German girl surviving WWII, and Trudy, her grown daughter who mistakenly believes her father is an SS officer. The story offers a good dose of tragedy, as one might expect, but it remains hopeful without becoming too soft. Well worth reading and I will gladly recommend it!

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Those Who Save Us

Those Who Save Us

I have read a lot of books about WWII from a Jewish perspective, but never from a German (non-Jewish perspective). There were several things about this book that I really enjoyed. I felt that Blum did a great job developing the characters during both periods; however, I felt like she lacked the ability to connect the characters. This book fals into the "historical fiction" category, so realize that not a lot of detail is accurate.

Overall, I think this was a great read and a good book.

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