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Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum
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9780156031660 Trade Paperback
0156031663
$14.00
496pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2004
Territory:
US, C, O
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Synopsis |
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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
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Biography |
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JENNA BLUM is of German and Jewish descent. She worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation for four years, interviewing Holocaust survivors. She currently teaches at Boston University and runs fiction workshops for Grub Street Writers.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Sagas
Fiction- Historical
Fiction- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Jewish Studies
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