Those Who Save Us by Blum, Jenna

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family's role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame.

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer 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, Jenna Blume's Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive.

The winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel.

Author: Jenna Blum
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/02/2005
Pages: 482
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780156031660

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 84