Books like Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Anna Schlemmer, who survived Germany during World War II, kept her experiences hidden for fifty years. Her young daughter Trudy, freed into an American family and raised in Minnesota, learns only a family portrait that includes a Buchenwald officer. Now a professor of German history, Trudy feels compelled to investigate her mother’s lifetime of secrecy. As she searches, she discovers the painful truth of Anna’s life under the Nazis, a story that intertwines a doomed love affair, the daily hardships of wartime Germany, and a complex mother‑daughter relationship. The novel offers a sensitive portrait of perseverance, the long shadow of the Holocaust, and the painful process of coming to terms with inherited guilt.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Jenna Blum
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