Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 1/24/2011 + 174 more book reviews

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I am such a fan of this book. I love WWII literature, both fiction and non-fiction, especially stories of the Resistance. This is the story of Emma Bau, a Jewish girl who winds up in the ghetto in Poland during the Nazi occupation. She lives there with her parents, although just weeks earlier she and Jacob, another Jewish member of the Resistance, were married. During the night, she is whisked away out of the ghetto and into the Krakow home of Jacob's Catholic cousin, where she takes on the name and persona of a Gentile and goes to work for a Nazi Kommandant in order to find out secrets of the occupation for the Resistance. The tension of her story, her relationship with the Kommandant who falls in love with her were enough to keep me reading into the night and thinking about this book when I wasn't reading it.

I already have the sequel to this book, and I most definitely recommend it for good reading and for its educational aspects about the Polish Resistance.

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