Description

Title: My Mother’s Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

Author: J.L. Witterick

ISBN: 9780425274811

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher :
Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic–each party completely unknown to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German simply and succinctly from four different perspectives–all under one roof–My Mother’s Secret is a testament to the kindness, courage, and generosity of ordinary people who chose to be extraordinary.