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Loading... Lovely Green Eyes (2000)by Arnošt LUSTIG
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  Whisper1 | Jul 30, 2022 |    ) SadieBabie | Jun 23, 2018 | ) HeatherLINC | Jan 23, 2016 | This is a book that I will not soon forget, the story felt so very real and personal. The author is himself a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and so knows of what he writes about. The writing style took a little time to adjust to, as it tended to be choppy and jumped around somewhat, but as the story was meant to be told to the reader as if by a narrator who is giving up his memories so it made the work seem all the more life-like. “That was what it was like, and she know it could not be otherwise because that otherwise meant the gas chamber, the crematorium and ashes.” The story is overwhelmingly sad and yet my admiration toward these girls who had to use their bodies in order to survive is unlimited. Lovely Green Eyes was difficult to read at times, but never salacious. This is a story of surviving Nazi war atrocities, but is relevant as the horror of sexual slavery is very prevalent in many countries even today. (  )2  DeltaQueen50 | Apr 21, 2014 | ) bcBulan-Purnama | Aug 6, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative- follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle, and her fierce, burning desire for life.LOVELY GREEN EYES explores the compromises and sacrifices that an individual may make in order to survive, the way a woman can retain her identity in the face of appalling trauma, and the value of human life itself.This is a remarkable novel, which soars beyond nightmare, leaving the reader with a transcendent sense of hope. No library descriptions found. 
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This is the story of the girls who survived. The girl who tells the story was, like all others who were forced to live a life of servitude, or be ordered to the gas chambers.
The story ends with one of the survivors telling her tale to a Rabbi. As she point by point tells the Rabbi what it was like to give your soul to a man who has the power to kill you. As many stories of all impacted by the Holocaust, The world was left with the question of WHY? Why did the finger point one way where death occurs, and the other where a life of servitude and pain occurs. As the young girl, now a grown woman tells her story, all who hear it are left wounded. (