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Book Review of Those Who Save Us

Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us
Author: Jenna Blum
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Those Who Save Us looks at the horrors of the Holocaust from the unique perspective of an Aryan German woman, Anna, and her daughter, Trudy. When Anna falls in love with a Jewish doctor and hides him in her Nazi-sympathizer fathers house, it starts a chain of events that move from her struggle to survive the hardships of war in Germany to the United States when an American soldier marries Anna and takes her and 3-year-old Trudy to Minnesota. The story shifts from 1939 to 1997 to tell of Annas experiences and Trudys memories and how both women try to overcome both.