The Kommandant's Girl

by Pam Jenoff | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0778323420 Global Overview for this book
Registered by megami-no-ushi of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 6/9/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by megami-no-ushi from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, June 9, 2012
I had read the second book "The Diplomat's Wife" first and enjoyed it enough to track down this book, which didn't disappoint.

From Booklist
Emma had lived in the closed orthodox Jewish community of Krakow, Poland, until she began working at the university library and met Jacob. He sweeps her off her feet, and they marry on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Jacob immediately leaves to join the Jewish underground, and Emma returns to her family, now locked in the Jewish ghetto. Jacob provides false papers, enabling Emma to become Anna Lipowski and move in with his Catholic aunt Krysia, posing as her niece. Krysia works for the underground while maintaining her status as a leader in the arts community. During a dinner party, Emma/Anna is introduced to Nazi Kommadant Richwalder. Smitten, he asks her to come work for him. She agrees, knowing such access will aid the underground, and even becomes intimate with the enemy to gather information. In her moving first novel, Jenoff offers an insightful portrait of people forced into an untenable situation and succeeds in humanizing the unfathomable as well as the heroic. Patty Engelmann
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Journal Entry 2 by megami-no-ushi at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, June 9, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (6/10/2012 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taking to the June meetup!

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Journal Entry 3 by MoomaOma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, June 10, 2012
Picked this up at the June BookCrossing meeting among many others.

Journal Entry 4 by MoomaOma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, May 11, 2013
Unfortunately I didn't get around to reading this.

Journal Entry 5 by MoomaOma at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, May 11, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (5/11/2013 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taking this to the May bookcrossing meeting to pass onto the next reader.

Journal Entry 6 by Crossing-Guard at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, May 12, 2013
Picked this up at May's meeting... Once again I came home with way too many books. This one may be sitting on my TBR shelf for awhile.

Journal Entry 7 by Crossing-Guard at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Friday, August 21, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/12/2015 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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I am overloaded with books and a new baby so returning this as other people are waiting for it. I would like it back at sometime though....

Journal Entry 8 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, September 12, 2015
OK - I cam home with WAY too many books. But, my books are organized now by when I got them.

Journal Entry 9 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, April 1, 2017
This book kept me reading. Interesting thinking about Jewish underground. Hadn't really heard about it before. Anna/Emma was an interesting character faced with difficult choices. The Kommondant was a very complex character also. There were a couple of things that seemed a bit forced but over all I really enjoyed the book.

Journal Entry 10 by sing-song at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Friday, May 12, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (5/13/2017 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taking this to the May meetup at Cravings.

Journal Entry 11 by wingrureadingwing at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, June 4, 2017
Apologies for not journaling the book sooner.

Journal Entry 12 by wingrureadingwing at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, November 11, 2017
This was an interesting story that kept me reading. It describes a small part of the miseries of the Jewish people during the early days of Nazi occupation in Poland.

Journal Entry 13 by wingrureadingwing at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, November 11, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (11/11/2017 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taken to the Calgary BC Meetup.

Journal Entry 14 by Eri-Cherry at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, December 9, 2017
Picked up at the November get together!

Journal Entry 15 by Eri-Cherry at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Monday, October 14, 2019
Well written historical fiction. It gave an interesting look into a portion of conditions in WWII in Polland. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but the story pulled me along and kept me reading.

Thanks for the interesting read.

Journal Entry 16 by Eri-Cherry at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, November 9, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (11/9/2019 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Taken to get together

Journal Entry 17 by Crossing-Guard at Langdon, Alberta Canada on Saturday, February 6, 2021
Pulled this out of the book box while doing some clean up

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