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Marina Osipova’s “Too Many Wolves In The Local Woods” gives an interesting perspective of how the Russian side of the occupation of the Nazi’s in the area’s close to Germany during WWII.

Liberation Berlin by JJ Toner was an interesting tale of regular Berlin citizens at the end of WWII. Although the synopsis asks if life under Soviet rule would be better, that wasn’t addressed as the story ends just before the Soviets defeat the German army and its “voluntold” army. Also unsure if the characters are based on real people.

Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger’s Magda’s Mark left me a bit tired. She packed almost too much into the story. I actually got more out of the Author’s Notes.

"The Aftermath" by Ellie Midwood

"Germany has been liberated but the battle for the hearts and minds of the people has just begun." An emotional story of unlikely friendships. A former Jewish Auschwitz inmate, an SS official's daughter, a former Wehrmacht (regular German armed forces) and a US OSS agent looking for the SS official, knowing he'll come back for his dauther.

I finished the first novella "Stolen Childhood" by Marion Kummerow. Based on interviews with child Holocaust survivors, I think the paragraph that Kummerow wrote in her Author's Notes sums up the heartbreak of childhood trauma during imprisonment during the Holocaust. She has a series "War Girl Series," that tells more of Rachel and Mindel's family story.

I finished the first novella “Stolen Childhood” by Marion Kummerow. Based on interviews with child survivors, I think the paragraph that Kummerow wrote in her Author’s Notes sums up the heartbreak of childhood trauma during imprisonment during the Holocaust.

“Yet now, three quarters of a century later, fascism stirs once more all across our planet.”

Interesting as I’m only on the Foreword of this multi author book of stories about the end of WWII.