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My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story (urspr publ 2013; utgåvan 2013)

av J.L. Witterick (Författare)

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: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 all.
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Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 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 commander.
 
Told 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.… (mer)
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Titel:My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story
Författare:J.L. Witterick (Författare)
Info:G.P. Putnam's Sons (2013), Edition: 8.6.2013, 208 pages
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My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story av J. L. Witterick (2013)

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    Years of Horror, Glimpse of Hope: The Diary of a Family in Hiding av Moshe Maltz (meggyweg)
    meggyweg: The true story which "My Mother's Secret" is based on.
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This is a book that reflects the strengths, horrors, perseverance and heart of WWII, and what a positive, daring impact one woman did to save lives and risk her own. I highly recommend this quick read! ( )
  JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |
Very good quick read. Read it in just a few hours one day. While it moved through the war very fast it was still a very enticing read. ( )
  er_malley | Jul 10, 2021 |
Based on a true story and very good. ( )
  myers3 | May 2, 2021 |
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My Mother’s Secret by J. L. Witterick is a simplistic, fictionalized account of two real-life heroines of World War II. Franciszka and Helena Halamajowa rescued fifteen Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust and did so for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. To put it into perspective, in their little town in Poland, only thirty of six thousand Jews survived the war. The Halamajowa women saved half of the survivors on their own simply by hiding them in and around their very tiny homestead.

At only 208 pages, Ms. Witterick does not go into great detail about the events at the Halamajowa household, but what she does show gives us four different viewpoints of the war and living in occupied Poland. We get a partial understanding of the desperation required to ask for help in hiding from the Nazis, and we also get an idea that not all Nazis relished their roles in occupying countries and terminating the Jews. More importantly, we can glean an idea of the humanity it takes to hide not one but two families as well as a German deserter from the enemy.

Again, My Mother’s Secret is more a novella than a novel, so there is no depth, no insight into the characters or the story. Instead, we get a very simplistic view of the generosity of spirit and the creativity it took to protect those most at risk during the Nazi occupation. Coming off of four years of inflamed hatred and burgeoning fascism, My Mother’s Secret inspires as it provides proof that humanity can be better than what the news media reports. ( )
  jmchshannon | Jan 27, 2021 |
A very moving true story based on the life of Franciska and daughter Helene who hid Jews and a German soldier in their home and /or property. during WW II. I liked how this story unfolded with the different characters and how their lives were intertwined with one another. ( )
  travelgal | Aug 25, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: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 all.
 
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 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 commander.
 
Told 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.

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