Those Who Save Us (Kennebec Large Print Superior Collection)

by Jenna Blum

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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.
  • ISBN10 0156031663
  • ISBN13 9780156031660
  • Publish Date 2 May 2005 (first published 5 April 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvest Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 482
  • Language English