Those Who Save Us

by Jenna Blum

Genres: Jewish Fiction; International Crime & Mystery; Book Club Picks

Synopsis

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 Obersturnfuhrer 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 mothers life.

Release date: May 2, 2005

Publisher: Mariner Books

Print pages: 497