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Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir
Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WW2 in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness.
Lilo was just a teenager when the Nazis took away her mother and father in September 1942. She never saw them again. A year later, she received another painful blow when her brother Hans was taken too. She was now alone at 19 years old in a dangerous and brutal world.
Until she heard one familiar voice that called her name, and saved her life.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Ernst was hiding in a small room with his parents, doing all he could to ensure their survival, even when violent explosions and the possibility of exposure threatened to take their lives. They remained hidden for 27 months, but sadly it was only Ernst and his mother who emerged from the shelter after the war.
Ernst and Lilo eventually marry, re-locate to America, create a new life, and have a daughter who is the author of this book.
This deeply saddening yet touching memoir is not only about the horrific Nazi regime and how it affected both Lilo and Ernst but it is also a memoir to recognize and thank the heroic people who put themselves in danger to save their lives. Without them, we wouldn’t have the opportunity to read their important story.
Lilo was just a teenager when the Nazis took away her mother and father in September 1942. She never saw them again. A year later, she received another painful blow when her brother Hans was taken too. She was now alone at 19 years old in a dangerous and brutal world.
Until she heard one familiar voice that called her name, and saved her life.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Ernst was hiding in a small room with his parents, doing all he could to ensure their survival, even when violent explosions and the possibility of exposure threatened to take their lives. They remained hidden for 27 months, but sadly it was only Ernst and his mother who emerged from the shelter after the war.
Ernst and Lilo eventually marry, re-locate to America, create a new life, and have a daughter who is the author of this book.
This deeply saddening yet touching memoir is not only about the horrific Nazi regime and how it affected both Lilo and Ernst but it is also a memoir to recognize and thank the heroic people who put themselves in danger to save their lives. Without them, we wouldn’t have the opportunity to read their important story.
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April 14, 2021
Again, I am startled by the proximity of the events of WWII to today's world. This account of living in Nazi Berlin, surviving the Holocaust, and coming to America still resonates because the Jewish family reconnected to their German friends. The Righteous Among the Nations honor helps to keep the story alive and commemorate the heroism of those who protected Jews during this turbulent era. It is a blessing that the grandchildren of the survivors are doing the work to recognize and thank these everyday saints.
December 15, 2020
Muriel Rukeyser wrote that, "The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms." My universe is infinitely richer for having read Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir. Evelyn Grossman's book brings a new voice and perspective to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust genres by sharing the lives and legacies of her parents, both of whom were hidden in Berlin by ordinary people with extraordinary courage. Hidden in Berlin walks readers through the day to day lives of her parents before, during, and after the war, and tells the tales of the acts of kindness, terror, valor, and luck that enabled them to survive when millions of others perished. She also shares the painful and tragic stories of her family members who did not survive, and her mother's quest to find answers and to recognize and honor the families that saved them. It is a compelling human tale with lessons that we need to hear, today more than ever.
I was reading this story aloud to my husband as we were driving on a long trip. Our teenage son was in the backseat with his earbuds on. However, after a few minutes, he pulled out his earbuds and listened to the entire tale with rapt attention. When you can write a book with the detail and heart to hook both parents and teenage boys, you know you've achieved something extraordinary. We had such wonderful conversations during and after the book. This book would be perfect for book clubs, for high school and college classrooms, and for anyone who wants to understand vast historical events through the lens of two people who lived through them.
I was reading this story aloud to my husband as we were driving on a long trip. Our teenage son was in the backseat with his earbuds on. However, after a few minutes, he pulled out his earbuds and listened to the entire tale with rapt attention. When you can write a book with the detail and heart to hook both parents and teenage boys, you know you've achieved something extraordinary. We had such wonderful conversations during and after the book. This book would be perfect for book clubs, for high school and college classrooms, and for anyone who wants to understand vast historical events through the lens of two people who lived through them.
January 17, 2021
Highly recommend
This book was such a pleasure to read. It touched my heart and made me smile. It is beautifully written and I'm so grateful to the author for sharing this heartfelt and important story. Would highly recommend.
This book was such a pleasure to read. It touched my heart and made me smile. It is beautifully written and I'm so grateful to the author for sharing this heartfelt and important story. Would highly recommend.
November 16, 2022
True Stories of Holocaust Survivors
This was another eye opening look at the charity of the few, who listened to their hearts, instead of the lies told by Hitler and his henchmen and took strangers into their homes and let them stay for many months, even at the peril of their own lives.
This true story was written by the daughter of one such couple.
Her father and his parents lived in one tiny room for months.
He would sneak out for what food,he could find, a couple times a week,putting himself at great risk.
After one such trip,he came back to find his father had passed away.He knew,he had to get rid of his body,so in the evening, he and another man,laid his body on an old cart and took him to the river.
He gently took his father's body and laid him in the river, so the current, would carry him.away.
He went back to his mother and they grieved together in silence.
This was a hard book to read, but the people showed such resilience,who lived thru these times and the author wrote with such grace about her parents and others,it made it easier,to get thru the hard parts.
She also included wonderful.photos,of important events.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in WWII history.
This was another eye opening look at the charity of the few, who listened to their hearts, instead of the lies told by Hitler and his henchmen and took strangers into their homes and let them stay for many months, even at the peril of their own lives.
This true story was written by the daughter of one such couple.
Her father and his parents lived in one tiny room for months.
He would sneak out for what food,he could find, a couple times a week,putting himself at great risk.
After one such trip,he came back to find his father had passed away.He knew,he had to get rid of his body,so in the evening, he and another man,laid his body on an old cart and took him to the river.
He gently took his father's body and laid him in the river, so the current, would carry him.away.
He went back to his mother and they grieved together in silence.
This was a hard book to read, but the people showed such resilience,who lived thru these times and the author wrote with such grace about her parents and others,it made it easier,to get thru the hard parts.
She also included wonderful.photos,of important events.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in WWII history.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 1, 2020
This is the story of Lilo and Ernst and their lives before and after the war. What is really amazing is that they remained hidden in Berlin during the Nazi Regime. It’s a story of resilience, courage and solidarity. Lilo and Ernst met in 1941 in a Jewish theater allowed by the German Government, as the author said this theater “created a facade to the outside world that Jews In Germany were well treated”. As the deportations began, living in Berlin became even harder to Jews. Lilo and Ernst had to find a place to remain safe. What makes this book a great one is the way it’s written, couldn’t put the book down. We follow all that happened, how they managed to get through the risks, how people helped them even putting their own lives in danger. I really loved it.
January 1, 2021
Evelyn Joseph Grossman – Hidden in Berlin – Reviewed 12/31/20 – Read 12/20/20
When people pull together for the sake of saving the life of another, miracles happen!
Growing up for Iilo before the war was a life of dance, biking, and activities with her brother! But that all changed when the Nazis broke up her family by sending her parents to a death camp. Iilo and her brother were not home at the time they were taken. They were fortunate to have a friend of their parents that took them in, only to later have her brother picked up, also taken to a death camp. He did not survive!
Ernst, Iilo’s boyfriend, on the other hand, went into hiding with his mother and father before they could be picked up by the Nazis. This was to be their life for the next 27 months. He was able to forage for food and supplies, plus arrange to meet with Iilo occasionally but not without fear of being caught himself.
If not for the support of friends and others that put their lives, and their families at risk did many of the German Jewish community survive. This is the story of those people and what this couple did to make it through the living hell that the Nazis forced onto this group of German citizens, told by the daughter of the survivors, Iilo and Ernst. It also points out the unselfish acts of kindness that were given to many. Many that without their help would have never survived. Those acts are the reason for us to be able to read this incredible account of their journey.
And the story unfolds…
What did I like? My father was a soldier during WWII. He was a truck driver that delivered ammunition to the front lines, a member of what they called the CannonBall Express. He brought home photos that he took while on duty after the Germans surrendered. The photos were horrific, I saw them when I was about 12 or 13. I could not understand what was going on until my dad sat me down and explained what they were. It was skeletons and decayed bodies that the military found in trenches that the Germans dug and dumped them in. I remember crying and asking him that important question that no one can categorically answer…WHY???
After reading this account and many others that I have read over the years, some of the true horrors have come to life for me. Without the compassion of countless, and numerous will forever remain nameless, did so many survive. Some to tell their stories and others to remain silent with those horrors forever in their minds. Reliving it daily in their head. None of us will truly ever understand because we were not forced to live under those conditions.
It has taken me all day to write these few lines, but I find that this type of book is the hardest of all books to review. Not that others have not put the same kind of work into their books, but because this is all about someone's heart and soul. Their life and the hellish road that they had to travel to put pen to paper, just to give us a look at the atrocities that was committed against them. Of course, I find that these books are sometimes the most interesting to read for just that same reason. Thankfully, I have never had to live through this nor have many others of this day and time. God forbid that it should ever happen again, so we read, and we learn from the real facts. Or at least that is the way that I look at it.
How can you not read and feel the pain that this person or persons have gone through? The insight that they give us, without cost to us as a person, is immeasurable. These things need to be passed down as with many other things in life, they get lost. We are experiencing that right now; with the fact that many of the statues that were dedicated to certain people or occurrences are being removed from our world. You ask, what will be next? I am not sure and that is one of the reasons that I love reading. Every day, I learn, and it is certainly more than they taught in school, or at least the schools that I attended. Ask your children or grandchildren, what they know of the holocaust? I can almost assure you that they know extraordinarily little. Hand them this book and tell them to read it, I am certain, they will come back with untold information that they will never hear in schools!!!
I am not putting down the school system, nor am I against any learning institution because they are only teaching what they have been told to teach. I remember an author telling me that the best compliment that he had received on his book was from a schoolteacher. He said that his students had learned more history from his book than what was in the systems instructional books. I think that says it all!!!
• File Size: 4939 KB
• Print Length: 241 pages
• Publication Date: 12/1/2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
• ASIN: B08ND688YF
• Genre: Historical German Biographies, Memoirs, Historical Biographies
When people pull together for the sake of saving the life of another, miracles happen!
Growing up for Iilo before the war was a life of dance, biking, and activities with her brother! But that all changed when the Nazis broke up her family by sending her parents to a death camp. Iilo and her brother were not home at the time they were taken. They were fortunate to have a friend of their parents that took them in, only to later have her brother picked up, also taken to a death camp. He did not survive!
Ernst, Iilo’s boyfriend, on the other hand, went into hiding with his mother and father before they could be picked up by the Nazis. This was to be their life for the next 27 months. He was able to forage for food and supplies, plus arrange to meet with Iilo occasionally but not without fear of being caught himself.
If not for the support of friends and others that put their lives, and their families at risk did many of the German Jewish community survive. This is the story of those people and what this couple did to make it through the living hell that the Nazis forced onto this group of German citizens, told by the daughter of the survivors, Iilo and Ernst. It also points out the unselfish acts of kindness that were given to many. Many that without their help would have never survived. Those acts are the reason for us to be able to read this incredible account of their journey.
And the story unfolds…
What did I like? My father was a soldier during WWII. He was a truck driver that delivered ammunition to the front lines, a member of what they called the CannonBall Express. He brought home photos that he took while on duty after the Germans surrendered. The photos were horrific, I saw them when I was about 12 or 13. I could not understand what was going on until my dad sat me down and explained what they were. It was skeletons and decayed bodies that the military found in trenches that the Germans dug and dumped them in. I remember crying and asking him that important question that no one can categorically answer…WHY???
After reading this account and many others that I have read over the years, some of the true horrors have come to life for me. Without the compassion of countless, and numerous will forever remain nameless, did so many survive. Some to tell their stories and others to remain silent with those horrors forever in their minds. Reliving it daily in their head. None of us will truly ever understand because we were not forced to live under those conditions.
It has taken me all day to write these few lines, but I find that this type of book is the hardest of all books to review. Not that others have not put the same kind of work into their books, but because this is all about someone's heart and soul. Their life and the hellish road that they had to travel to put pen to paper, just to give us a look at the atrocities that was committed against them. Of course, I find that these books are sometimes the most interesting to read for just that same reason. Thankfully, I have never had to live through this nor have many others of this day and time. God forbid that it should ever happen again, so we read, and we learn from the real facts. Or at least that is the way that I look at it.
How can you not read and feel the pain that this person or persons have gone through? The insight that they give us, without cost to us as a person, is immeasurable. These things need to be passed down as with many other things in life, they get lost. We are experiencing that right now; with the fact that many of the statues that were dedicated to certain people or occurrences are being removed from our world. You ask, what will be next? I am not sure and that is one of the reasons that I love reading. Every day, I learn, and it is certainly more than they taught in school, or at least the schools that I attended. Ask your children or grandchildren, what they know of the holocaust? I can almost assure you that they know extraordinarily little. Hand them this book and tell them to read it, I am certain, they will come back with untold information that they will never hear in schools!!!
I am not putting down the school system, nor am I against any learning institution because they are only teaching what they have been told to teach. I remember an author telling me that the best compliment that he had received on his book was from a schoolteacher. He said that his students had learned more history from his book than what was in the systems instructional books. I think that says it all!!!
• File Size: 4939 KB
• Print Length: 241 pages
• Publication Date: 12/1/2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
• ASIN: B08ND688YF
• Genre: Historical German Biographies, Memoirs, Historical Biographies
April 27, 2021
Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir is by Evelyn Joseph Grossman. This memoir is written by the Holocaust survivors’ daughter to honor her parents as well as the people who risked everything to help them. Evelyn wrote her parents’ stories after her Father died and after her own children were grown. She based it on the notes her Father had written and left behind as well as information from her Uncle Gerhard and interviews from her Mother. She and her Mother also visited Berlin and tracked down the places she had been. She did speak at length with the daughter of the person who saved her Mother and relatives of the man who saved her Father. She also used the files at Yad Vashem and the International Tracing System. Her research covered many years as did the writing of her book; however, it was published while her Mother is still alive, although in her nineties.
The story of Lilo (Elisabeth Charlotte Lina) begins with showing her middle-class family and how they showed their love for each other through laughter and fun. Lilo and her brother Hans Martin were close for their entire lives. Bruno did not want to leave Berlin because it was his home and his job was there along with his friends and family. His wife, Ella, begged him to at least send the children on the Kindertransport; but he wanted the family to stay together. Lilo and Hans Martin were both working the day the Nazis came to their house and took their parents. The children were devastated and considered following their parents; however, instead they went to their former nanny’s house where she gave them shelter. Then, one day, Hans Martin was out on the streets when he was arrested and sent to what she later learned was Auschwitz. Somehow, he managed to befriend a guard who mailed two letters to Lilo who in turn sent him aide packages as he requested. That was the last she heard from him. When the bombing of Berlin began, the house she was in was bombed and she had to leave. She lived on the streets as she had no place to go and it would be days before she heard from her boyfriend, Ernst. Meanwhile, a girl who went to her school met her on the street and told her to come to her house as her Mother needed help with the house. Eva was from a rich family. Her Father had died; but her Mother raised her. Eva’s Father was Jewish but her Mother was not. They gave her a job as maid in the house and sheltered her for the rest of the war. While in the house, she met many Nazis and others in charge through the parties the Mother threw. After the war, Lilo reconnected with her boyfriend.
Ernst Joseph was more in love with Lilo than she was with him. Had the war not interfered, they may not have married at all. When the war broke out, Ernst found a place for his parents and himself to stay. It wasn’t much; but it was safe. He would go out once a week to find food and then he would meet up with Lilo and check on her. He always knew how to get in touch with her; but he never did tell her where he would be. His Father died while they were hiding and he had to dispose of his body. After the war, his mother went to the US to be with his brother Gebhardt. Eventually Ernst and Lilo followed them to New Jersey.
From this bit of information, Evelyn Grossman managed to delve into research and fill in the puzzle pieces of their lives as well as get the necessary corroboration needed to get their rescuers accepted as Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem. Help came to her from some very unexpected places. The book tells all and it is a must to read.
The story of Lilo (Elisabeth Charlotte Lina) begins with showing her middle-class family and how they showed their love for each other through laughter and fun. Lilo and her brother Hans Martin were close for their entire lives. Bruno did not want to leave Berlin because it was his home and his job was there along with his friends and family. His wife, Ella, begged him to at least send the children on the Kindertransport; but he wanted the family to stay together. Lilo and Hans Martin were both working the day the Nazis came to their house and took their parents. The children were devastated and considered following their parents; however, instead they went to their former nanny’s house where she gave them shelter. Then, one day, Hans Martin was out on the streets when he was arrested and sent to what she later learned was Auschwitz. Somehow, he managed to befriend a guard who mailed two letters to Lilo who in turn sent him aide packages as he requested. That was the last she heard from him. When the bombing of Berlin began, the house she was in was bombed and she had to leave. She lived on the streets as she had no place to go and it would be days before she heard from her boyfriend, Ernst. Meanwhile, a girl who went to her school met her on the street and told her to come to her house as her Mother needed help with the house. Eva was from a rich family. Her Father had died; but her Mother raised her. Eva’s Father was Jewish but her Mother was not. They gave her a job as maid in the house and sheltered her for the rest of the war. While in the house, she met many Nazis and others in charge through the parties the Mother threw. After the war, Lilo reconnected with her boyfriend.
Ernst Joseph was more in love with Lilo than she was with him. Had the war not interfered, they may not have married at all. When the war broke out, Ernst found a place for his parents and himself to stay. It wasn’t much; but it was safe. He would go out once a week to find food and then he would meet up with Lilo and check on her. He always knew how to get in touch with her; but he never did tell her where he would be. His Father died while they were hiding and he had to dispose of his body. After the war, his mother went to the US to be with his brother Gebhardt. Eventually Ernst and Lilo followed them to New Jersey.
From this bit of information, Evelyn Grossman managed to delve into research and fill in the puzzle pieces of their lives as well as get the necessary corroboration needed to get their rescuers accepted as Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem. Help came to her from some very unexpected places. The book tells all and it is a must to read.
November 13, 2022
Discover the life of a “U-Boat” in Berlin
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 December 2020
This is not a story centred around surviving a camp but trying to live and survive in the capital city of Nazi Germany. It is about two “U-boats”, Jews who went beneath the surface of German life. They were dependent upon the heroism and deception of non-Jews, who deserved the title of “Righteous amongst the Nations”. It was not simply the case of finding one hiding place but many, that involved more people and the risk of being betrayed, even by a Jewish Jew hunter. The story does not end with the end of the war, Berlin was not safe even then. The family’s trials and tribulations come right down to today. The effects of the Holocaust touch second and third generations. The story returns to Berlin in more modern years and re-union with those regarded as “Righteous amongst the Nations”. Read and learn answers to questions which go beyond one answer.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 December 2020
This is not a story centred around surviving a camp but trying to live and survive in the capital city of Nazi Germany. It is about two “U-boats”, Jews who went beneath the surface of German life. They were dependent upon the heroism and deception of non-Jews, who deserved the title of “Righteous amongst the Nations”. It was not simply the case of finding one hiding place but many, that involved more people and the risk of being betrayed, even by a Jewish Jew hunter. The story does not end with the end of the war, Berlin was not safe even then. The family’s trials and tribulations come right down to today. The effects of the Holocaust touch second and third generations. The story returns to Berlin in more modern years and re-union with those regarded as “Righteous amongst the Nations”. Read and learn answers to questions which go beyond one answer.
November 2, 2023
Often times I fixate on random subjects and decide to read everything I get my hands on until I lose interest or need a break. My latest obsession has been how grossly uneducated I was in the events of the holocaust so I decided to remedy that. This particular book focused on two stories of a Jewish couple who hid rather than being sent to the concentration camps. Still a very moving story that I shed a tear or two reading hearing about the utter terror they went through, and the horror they witness from their family members and friends. I also liked hearing about their story once they came to America, and just now the event they try to claim didn’t happen affected these people the rest of their lives.
February 23, 2021
Beautiful Story
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing story about your family. Who I believe was not just lucky but, truly blessed. And I can see your father and your daughter together taking care of each other. It is so hard when someone dies so young but, the story is about their living instead of their death as it was for your grandparents. Only if as you said more of the common people would have been willing to help others, how many others could have been saved.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing story about your family. Who I believe was not just lucky but, truly blessed. And I can see your father and your daughter together taking care of each other. It is so hard when someone dies so young but, the story is about their living instead of their death as it was for your grandparents. Only if as you said more of the common people would have been willing to help others, how many others could have been saved.
March 3, 2021
Hidden in Berlin is a powerful story of persecution in Nazi Berlin and the kindness of strangers. Through documents, letters, and friends, the author manages to recreate her parents' precarious existence in Berlin day by frightening day and at the same time creates a lively picture of the times. I also like the way she juxtaposes the struggle of these two young people, barely out of their teenage years, with her family's experience in contemporary America.
July 9, 2021
I especially liked the way the author interspersed the story of her parents with actual historical aspects (looking back). It did not take away from the main tale at all. The big lesson to be learned is to NOT wait to start writing the stories of Holocaust survivors, while they are still living and can share what happened.
July 13, 2021
Loved it
The story of this couple and how they survived in Berlin in hiding is amazing. A tale of perseverance and trust in people. I loved how Ernst in all the horror of the Holocaust focused on only the good and those who risked themselves to help him. His daughter was remarkable for ensuring those who did help her parents were recognized for their efforts. A page turner
The story of this couple and how they survived in Berlin in hiding is amazing. A tale of perseverance and trust in people. I loved how Ernst in all the horror of the Holocaust focused on only the good and those who risked themselves to help him. His daughter was remarkable for ensuring those who did help her parents were recognized for their efforts. A page turner
May 7, 2022
Important to remember the good people who made a difference
As the child of survivors, one of whom
was also saved by a couple recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, I could identify with much of the story and the author's experience. The story was well written and researched. Kudos
As the child of survivors, one of whom
was also saved by a couple recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, I could identify with much of the story and the author's experience. The story was well written and researched. Kudos
November 27, 2022
Being able to read and learn of my family’s history is a privilege I am incredibly grateful to have. The stories in Hidden in Berlin are written with love and honesty, each time I read this book something new resonates with me and I am brought to tears. This is a story that needs to be told, shared, and thought about.
February 21, 2021
Interesting stories
The first was very good with the the descriptions of the characters and their stories which were amazing considering it was in Berlin. In my opinion they could have left out the part in America.
The first was very good with the the descriptions of the characters and their stories which were amazing considering it was in Berlin. In my opinion they could have left out the part in America.
April 1, 2021
Loved this book
We can never understand the terror of what the Jewish people went through, but this book helped me understand a lot more. I loved the sincerity and love that was put into telling the story.
We can never understand the terror of what the Jewish people went through, but this book helped me understand a lot more. I loved the sincerity and love that was put into telling the story.
April 7, 2021
Great story and a lesson to be learned.
The horrors of WW II Germany have terrifying echoes of what has happened in the USA under the former president. The similarities to Hitler and his Nazi death squads should make all caring people take heed. This can never happen again!
The horrors of WW II Germany have terrifying echoes of what has happened in the USA under the former president. The similarities to Hitler and his Nazi death squads should make all caring people take heed. This can never happen again!
April 13, 2021
I must read
I feel compelled to read these memoirs every time I find one. It's so important that we remember and insist these awful things occurred. This story, like all the others, is tragic, yet hopeful. Please read this book, then share it.
I feel compelled to read these memoirs every time I find one. It's so important that we remember and insist these awful things occurred. This story, like all the others, is tragic, yet hopeful. Please read this book, then share it.
August 28, 2021
Several connected Holocaust stories
This is a book of stories that take place mainly in Berlin Germany about of Holocaust survivors. These people survived as they were hidden by the citizens of Berlin. I liked and recommend this book as another view of WW2
This is a book of stories that take place mainly in Berlin Germany about of Holocaust survivors. These people survived as they were hidden by the citizens of Berlin. I liked and recommend this book as another view of WW2
November 26, 2021
Enjoyable book. Another look at the struggles for survival during the Nazi's era of killing so many people! The destruction and loss of life was horrific. WE MUST remember this "Black ERA" of history to honor all those that perished.
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May 27, 2022
Good book
I liked this book ,but would have preferred to have the story run in a line not move from 1940 to the present and back again. Interesting stories of those who hid the Jews .
I liked this book ,but would have preferred to have the story run in a line not move from 1940 to the present and back again. Interesting stories of those who hid the Jews .
November 16, 2023
Required human reading
The detail and memories of life in Nazi german. Also how one person can see another by not complicated actions, these kind of things gives people a reason for existing as human beings
The detail and memories of life in Nazi german. Also how one person can see another by not complicated actions, these kind of things gives people a reason for existing as human beings
February 1, 2025
This is a boom that I think everyone should read. It is heart breaking but also heart warming knowing that even in a time where people were being told a race always inferior, there were people willing to stand up for what they thought was right and try to help, no matter the cost.
March 5, 2021
Brilliant
Awesome story of courage, sadness In the horror of Nazi Germany . The tenacity of the Jewish people after surviving the Holocaust.
Awesome story of courage, sadness In the horror of Nazi Germany . The tenacity of the Jewish people after surviving the Holocaust.
March 19, 2021
Bravery amidst horror
Incredible story of Berlin Jews confronting the horrors of the Nazi regime and the brave German gentiles who at the risk of their lives, sheltered them.
Incredible story of Berlin Jews confronting the horrors of the Nazi regime and the brave German gentiles who at the risk of their lives, sheltered them.
April 27, 2021
Heroes
A heart warning story of those who risked their own security to help people who risked their own life to help Jews and protect them from death.
A heart warning story of those who risked their own security to help people who risked their own life to help Jews and protect them from death.
May 10, 2021
I struggled to read this book as I found it very disjointed. I read 50 percent and could read no more!!!
July 27, 2021
Highly recommend this book about the struggles of a young couple in Nazi Germany and their building a new life in America once the war ended.
January 22, 2022
Very powerful memoir with some dramatic surprises. Left me feeling more hopeful about the human condition and our capacity to act out our humanity.
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