![]() ![]() The author does an outstanding job of avoiding the clichés and caricatures sometimes endemic to this topic. It is a tale not only of heroism, but of humanity, in all its complexity and ambiguity. Forced to grow rapidly in this new, hostile world, she not only survives, but courageously fights the Nazi oppression as best she can. Told in the first person, this is a story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young, naïve girl. ![]() Worse, her new position soon causes intense personal conflicts over all that she holds dear, especially her marriage vows to the absent Jacob. Urged to take on the job by the Resistance, Anna begins a new life, one that will lead her into a dangerous game of espionage. A chance meeting with the local Nazi governor, Kommandant Richwalder, results in a disturbing offer-personal assistant to the most powerful man in the city. Taking the new name of Anna Lipowski, she and Krysia together assume the care of an orphaned Jewish boy. Eventually, the Resistance smuggles her out to live with Jacob’s Catholic cousin, Krysia. In a short time, her husband Jacob disappears into the Resistance, leaving her and her parents to try to survive in the city’s Jewish ghetto. ![]() Emma Bau has been married only a few weeks when the Germans smash into Poland. ![]()
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