"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. Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the heartbreaking truth of her mother's life."

This was mailed today to my birthday rabck buddy, ladybug74; a wishlist book. Enjoy and happy birthday!!

Thanks for sending this book from my wishlist as a birthday surprise! I look forward to reading it. Thanks also for the other book that you enjoyed. I read the dust jacket and it sounds like one I will also enjoy.

Thanks for the caramels, tea, cute little clips, bookmarks, pencil, lotion, and bubble bath also. You are so generous! My daughter and I enjoyed opening the package together and pulling out all the "goodies!"

This was a great book! Thanks again, classicfox, for sending it to me! It started out just a little slow, but once it picked up I had to stay up way too late for several nights because I couldn't put it down.

The only thing that really bothered me about this book was that there was conversation scattered throughout the story with no quotations. The things that were said by characters seemed to run together with the other text because no quotations were used. It was still a great book, but this just bugged me for some reason.

This book tells the story of Trudie, who is a history professor trying to take care of her aging German mother and trying to get her mother to open up about who Trudie's father was. Trudie is also working on an interview project with other elderly people who lived in Nazi Germany and who have heartbreaking stories of their own.

Alternating with Trudie's story is the story of her elderly mother, Anna, who has some secrets that she will not discuss. Anna had to struggle and do some things that she wasn't proud of to make it in Nazi Germany with her young daughter, Trudie. Her story reveals who Trudie's father was, as well as the reason that she has kept this a secret.

Reserved for the multicultural fiction bookbox.

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Released into Supertalya's Multicultural Fiction Bookbox.

Pulled this from the bookbox. I am always fascinated by tales of the Holocaust.

I am fascinated with Holocaust books and am always surprised when they have a resh angle. I was not dissapointed with this one. I'd read the back blurb about the author and her experience interviewing Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg's project and kept thinking about that as I read. I thought her twist on the interviewing project in the book was a great idea. And I wondered how many of the Holocaust/War stories in the books might have been based on things she heard?

I found the story angle of Anna and the Obersturmfuhrer intriguing. Especially as Trudy reflected back on "Saint Nikolaus" and her mistaken assumption of the role he played in her life. What would it feel like to think that you were the daughter of a Nazi??

Anyway, another great Holocaust book that I'll highly recommend.

Left on a bench at Walgreens on Rt. 466. Enjoy!

It was a very good book, I like how it kept switching from her childhood to her adulthood.....

I spotted the book in the teacher's room of the high school I work at. This is the first I've heard of this site and it sounds fun! Looking forward to reading this interesting story. Thanks for releasing it! :)