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The kommandant's girl

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  • FICTION JENO (OSH)

Publication Information

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2018]

Physical Description

368 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacobs Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety and her marriage vows in order to help Jacobs cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, Emma must make choices that will force her to risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.

Notes

Publication date from publisher's Web site.

Includes reader's guide.

"Sneak peek at Pam Jenoff's new novel The Woman with the Blue Star."--Cover.

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