Helpful Score: 3
Excellent book about Elsie and Jane, mother and daughter owners of a German Bakery in El Paso, Tx, in present day. Every other chapter flashes back to Germany during WW-2.
A reporter interviews Elsie, to write a story about how Christmas holidays were celebrated during the war. She becomes fast friends with the women and her interesting story is intertwined through the book.
Back in Germany, we learn about Elsie hiding a 7 year old Jewish boy in a wall in her bedroom, and even her family did not know he was there. She found herself engaged to a high ranking Nazi Officer because he was able to help her family by keeping the Gestapo away. The boy eventually is discovered and somehow escapes being taken and disappears.
The story continues; about her sister who was in the Lebensborn Program, where racially pure girls were forced to mate and then give up their children to the SS.
This story was amazing and had me reading non stop. The only fault I found were the "handwritten" letters scattered through the book were very hard to see. The print was very light and the words very small. That is the only reason I did not give this book 5 stars.
I highly recommend this book, especially if you like historical fiction.
A reporter interviews Elsie, to write a story about how Christmas holidays were celebrated during the war. She becomes fast friends with the women and her interesting story is intertwined through the book.
Back in Germany, we learn about Elsie hiding a 7 year old Jewish boy in a wall in her bedroom, and even her family did not know he was there. She found herself engaged to a high ranking Nazi Officer because he was able to help her family by keeping the Gestapo away. The boy eventually is discovered and somehow escapes being taken and disappears.
The story continues; about her sister who was in the Lebensborn Program, where racially pure girls were forced to mate and then give up their children to the SS.
This story was amazing and had me reading non stop. The only fault I found were the "handwritten" letters scattered through the book were very hard to see. The print was very light and the words very small. That is the only reason I did not give this book 5 stars.
I highly recommend this book, especially if you like historical fiction.
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