The Holocaust was,without doubt, one of the most horrific atrocities committed in war history.During Adolf Hitler's twelve year reign of terror,he contributed to the deaths of over fifty million people during the Second World War. He created a racial state where people considered unfit to live there were either persecuted,enslaved, or murdered in the most callous and inhumane way.Hitler's goal was to kill all Jewish men,women and children. He succeeded in murdering six million of them. Those that survived that horrendous atrocity would endure the pain and trauma suffered for the rest of their lives.On 1st November 2005, the United Nations resolved to designate 27th January as an International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.An outreach programme with the theme " Remembrance and Beyond " was developed with the aim of firstly, remembering the victims of the Holocaust, and secondly, helping to prevent future acts of genocide.The theme for the 2012 International Day of Commemoration was "Children and the Holocaust". The United Nations remembers ,and honours, the memory of all the children who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis.Hopefully,future generations will not have to suffer the same atrocities, pain and heartbreak.

Monday, 23 April 2012

Those who save us

Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

Canongate Books Ltd; 2005

ISBN: 9781920885540



Those  Who Save Us is the story of Anna Schlemmer, a young woman living in Germany in the 1940’s. Anna and her three-year-old daughter,Trudy, are liberated by an American soldier and go to live with him in Minnesota.

Trudy has never known much about her mother’s past, but fifty years on,  when she finds a photograph showing Anna, Trudy and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald, her curiosity is aroused and she begins to investigate the past and uncovers the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother’s life.

This is the story of the relationship between mother and daughter, guilt, the will to survive, and the pain and suffering when remembering the atrocities of war and the Holocaust.

Historical Fiction
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