Darling Mutti Author:Joan Marshall When the Nazis began exterminating the Jews in pre World War II Germany, families were driven to desperate extremes to protect the ones they loved. Only 375,000 Jews were able to escape persecution and they did so by whatever means possible: some smuggled themselves across the border by night; some, as children separated from their parents, were... more » sent to England on the Kindertransport and many fled to other countries. Most of them spent the rest of their lives trying to find the family they left behind.
Darling Mutti tells the true story of three cousins, Gerda Mailich, Kurt Herrmann, and Edith Twelkemeier Forrester, whose families were painfully separated by the Nazi persecution and atrocities and whose stories came together on South Africa's southern coast where so many German Jews sought refuge during those turbulent times.« less