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Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

2004 · EN

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.

Editions · 5

Paperback
2005 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
496 pp · EN
9780156035002
Paperback
2005 · Howes
630 pp · EN
9781845057794
Paperback
2006 · Canongate Books
496 pp · EN
9781841957012
Paperback
2009 · Kennebec Large Print
EN
9781410421753
Paperback
2009 · Marco Book Company
EN
9780784833483

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