Helpful Score: 3
"Those Who Save Us" is an amazing fictional story about Anna who was a young woman in Germany during WWII and her daughter Trudy, who was three when they were liberated by an American soldier at the end of the war and moved to America. As is the way of that generation, Anna refuses to talk about her life during the war. Trudy is left with no answers, only a single photo showing Anna, Trudy and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Now all grown up and a professor of history, Trudy begins to interview Germans who survived the war to learn about their experiences. The story unfolds in two time lines, the 1940's in Germany and the 1990's in America. We learn what life was like for Anna and Trudy and we begin to realize why Anna cannot speak of the things she tried to do during the war, the things she did in order to survive, and the shame of which she cannot speak.
This is a poignant story of a mother and daugther. It is a story of the things you will do to survive. It is beautifully written and you will mull it over in your mind for days after you finish reading.
Now all grown up and a professor of history, Trudy begins to interview Germans who survived the war to learn about their experiences. The story unfolds in two time lines, the 1940's in Germany and the 1990's in America. We learn what life was like for Anna and Trudy and we begin to realize why Anna cannot speak of the things she tried to do during the war, the things she did in order to survive, and the shame of which she cannot speak.
This is a poignant story of a mother and daugther. It is a story of the things you will do to survive. It is beautifully written and you will mull it over in your mind for days after you finish reading.
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