Waltraud, a true story of growing up in Nazi Germany

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When the librarian put this book out for July’s book read, I was disappointed. It looking boring and ho hum, and it was self published! Besides, I have read soooo many World War II books.
I didn’t start it until Sunday evening, and I read 175 pages that night. It was wonderful.
It begins in 1937, and it is a startling look at what life was like in Germany through the eyes of a young girl and told in a very engaging manner. I always read at least two books a week, and this was a wonderful find.
The author came to the library book club, and it was clear this was a labor of love. She gets $3.50 a book and has sold 12000 books so far. Her mother was extraordinary, she wasn’t a member of the resistance, she was an ordinary person with extraordinary resilience. It goes thru 1951, when the family emigrated to Milwaukee

I am recommending it to my Florida bookclub , and the author said she would zoom with us.

 

[rickandcindy23]

I am going to get the book and read it.

Mitch Albom wrote a book called The Little Liar, and we listened to it while going to/ from Branson. The book is fiction but about the Holocaust. It could have been any family's story.

 

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I am going to get the book and read it.

Mitch Albom wrote a book called The Little Liar, and we listened to it while going to/ from Branson. The book is fiction but about the Holocaust. It could have been any family's story.

Let me know your opinion of waltraud

I finished Beyond That, the Sea.
Fiction about a 10 year old English girl sent to live with an American family during the war to keep her safe. It was good.
I also read the book of lost names, very ordinary, nothing near the Nightingale

 

[rickandcindy23]

Emmy Davies' story was very similar to these stories of families split apart during the war. Emmy was iconnections, then Taffy19.

We have no idea how she is doing now. No one has heard from her, and all we have are rumors. She was from a northern European country and had her family torn apart during the war. She was very young. She is about 90 now, if she is still alive.

 

[am1]

When the librarian put this book out for July’s book read, I was disappointed. It looking boring and ho hum, and it was self published! Besides, I have read soooo many World War II books.
I didn’t start it until Sunday evening, and I read 175 pages that night. It was wonderful.
It begins in 1937, and it is a startling look at what life was like in Germany through the eyes of a young girl and told in a very engaging manner. I always read at least two books a week, and this was a wonderful find.
The author came to the library book club, and it was clear this was a labor of love. She gets $3.50 a book and has sold 12000 books so far. Her mother was extraordinary, she wasn’t a member of the resistance, she was an ordinary person with extraordinary resilience. It goes thru 1951, when the family emigrated to Milwaukee

I am recommending it to my Florida bookclub , and the author said she would zoom with us.
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That is the power of being able to self publish now. Maybe a little bit of each book sale could go to a victims fund?