Lilac Girls
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booklady331
of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 2/10/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
booklady331 of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 2/10/2018 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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You have in your hands a free gift. This book is yours to do with as you wish...read it, share it, keep it, pass it on!
I've registered this at BookCrossing.com so that I can keep up on where it goes, who reads it, and what they thought of it. If you like the BookCrossing concept, you might want to register yourself with a screen name, so that you can keep up on this book, and maybe release others also! It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), fascinating, and fun!
Thank you for picking up this book. I'd love to see an entry letting me know it is safe with you. Do with it as you please... read it (or not!), give it to a friend, keep it, leave it in the wild - it's up to you! Enjoy! If you like you can mention me, booklady331, as the one who referred you.
The story alternates between three characters. Caroline Ferriday is socialite and former actress in New York who works at the French embassy as WWII starts. The book features a romance between her and a French actor.
Kasia is a gutsy Polish teenager who throughout the story remains brave and strong. She desires to fight the Germans gets caught up in the Polish underground Her boyfriend, sister and mother are all arrested and sent to a women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück, Germany for "re-education." At this camp Nazi doctors performed terrible operations on the prisoners. Many of these inmates could no longer walk erect, but were reduced to hopping for which they were dubbed "the Rabbits of Ravensbrück". The reader is reminded of the horror of Nazi Germany,
The third woman is Herta, a Nazi doctor that in some way persuades herself that she is doing the right thing. It was not always easy to read. I thought it was brilliant of the author to include her story and to help the reader understand what drove her. Herta Oberhauser, one of the real Nazi doctors who performs these "experimental procedures" on the inmates. After the war, Dr Oberhauser was captured, tried at the doctors' trial in Nuremburg and incarcerated. I was angry at how quickly she was released from prison.
The ending left the reader thinking, wanting more, yet satisfied with the result.
The book was well-written and appeared to be well-researched. It is amazing that the characters are based on real women. The author was a former journalist.
Kasia is a gutsy Polish teenager who throughout the story remains brave and strong. She desires to fight the Germans gets caught up in the Polish underground Her boyfriend, sister and mother are all arrested and sent to a women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück, Germany for "re-education." At this camp Nazi doctors performed terrible operations on the prisoners. Many of these inmates could no longer walk erect, but were reduced to hopping for which they were dubbed "the Rabbits of Ravensbrück". The reader is reminded of the horror of Nazi Germany,
The third woman is Herta, a Nazi doctor that in some way persuades herself that she is doing the right thing. It was not always easy to read. I thought it was brilliant of the author to include her story and to help the reader understand what drove her. Herta Oberhauser, one of the real Nazi doctors who performs these "experimental procedures" on the inmates. After the war, Dr Oberhauser was captured, tried at the doctors' trial in Nuremburg and incarcerated. I was angry at how quickly she was released from prison.
The ending left the reader thinking, wanting more, yet satisfied with the result.
The book was well-written and appeared to be well-researched. It is amazing that the characters are based on real women. The author was a former journalist.
Journal Entry 3 by booklady331 at ——- Wild Released Somewhere In Cape Coral ——- in Cape Coral, Florida USA on Tuesday, March 15, 2022
booklady331 at ——- Wild Released Somewhere In Cape Coral ——- in Cape Coral, Florida USA on Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Released 2 yrs ago (3/16/2022 UTC) at ——- Wild Released Somewhere In Cape Coral ——- in Cape Coral, Florida USA
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