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Loading... The Woman with the Blue Star (2021)by Pam Jenoff
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A dishonest,reckless depiction of the events of the Holocaust. The author takes historical fact and turns it into an adventure and story of romance. It is very unsettling that a book this popular will tell people an incorrect representation of what really happened. The author should feel ashamed. ( ) Setting: Krakow, Poland, 1942 This is a story about 2 girls: one of them Jewish. Sadie and her family are forced to hide in a sewer to escape the roundup of the Jews. There is another Jewish family also hiding with them. One day while Sadie is hiding by a grate, Ella happens to see her. The two girls become friends with Ella trying to help the Jews by bringing them as much food as possible. While giving this book 5 stars, there are some unanswered questions: How did they cook? It had to have been dark down there. How did they get around without any light? This was a great read. Would highly recommend. This was an interesting story and would probably be a great story for teens interested in historical fictions as the two main characters are under 20 and there are no gratuitous sex scenes or vulgar language. I like that this book takes place in Poland and describes some of Krakow, which is a gorgeous city to visit. I also like the alternating POVs. Pam Jennoff’s latest book takes you the sewers in Poland during summer of 1943, where Sadie and her parents are hiding from the Germans. The book starts off setting the stage of the Jews being rounded up in 1942 but soon skips to the family going into hiding in the sewers. The book caused me to have a knot in my stomach as each page turned, with not knowing how things would pan out for the family. The book has a couple of twists that I didn’t see coming. I really enjoyed this book, another part of WWII history that I wasn’t aware of. Highly recommend this book. Another powerful story. The unlikelihood of the friendship between Sadie and Ella reminds us not everyone felt as the Germans and Poles. It was a heartwarming yet very sad story. Sadie lost so much when they were forced to live in the sewer tunnels. I cannot imagine what it must have been like especially for her pregnant mother. Losing the father they way they did in the sewer as they were going through the tunnels was unimaginable. I was sadden when Ella died at the end trying to save Sadie, Saul and Sail's dad. I was very happy though that even so many years had passed the Sadie and her thought to be dead sister met. Lucy thinking she was confronting Ella then realizing it was Sadie was a shock as we were made to think it was Sadie that died in the tunnel. I will read more of Pam Jenoff's writings for sure. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:"An emotional novel that you will never forget." â??Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II â?? Now a New York Times bestsller! 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous tunnels beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it's a girl hiding. Ella begins to aid Sadie and the two become close, but as the dangers of the war worsen, their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. Inspired by incredible true stories, The Woman with the Blue Star is an unforgettable testament to the power of friendship and the extraordinary strength of the human will to survive. Highly recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, CNN, BookTrib, Goodreads, Betches, AARP, Frolic, SheReads, and more! No library descriptions found. |
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