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Lilac Girls
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
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April 1, 2018
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April 30, 2018
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Radhika
Jan 09, 2018 rated it really liked it
The audio version of the book was amazing and the narrators brought to life the three perspectives during World War II. How does one commit inhuman acts? How can a person survive these acts and there is another aspect where a person not in the picture tries to right the wrongs and bring peace

Kasha, Herta and Caroline are the women in the story. Kasha along with her sister and mother is in a concentration camp in Ravanel. They are from Lublin Poland. Herta is a German and a doctor who performs su ...more
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Amy
May 21, 2016 rated it really liked it
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly is the story of three women at the crossroads of their lives. World War 2 is looming and a New York socialite, German doctor and Polish underground informant share their stories. Each chapter depicts a new layer of their struggles and while one wilts under the pressure, the others blossom and become stronger in order to survive. Readers find themselves rooting for the characters and cheering for their accomplishments.
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Sandy
Apr 05, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2016-reading-challenge
The Lilac Girls is a terrific book. I particularly liked the fact that it not only told the story from the viewpoint of a concentration camp survivor (who is not arrested because she is Jewish) and an American living in NYC during the war but also from the point of view of a female Nazi doctor who works in the concentration camp. The doctor's character has completely bought the Nazi propaganda about the superiority of the Aryan race although she still has a few scruples, but those are gone soon ...more
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Debie Orrell
May 19, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: audiobooks
Awesome book. This book intertwines the connections of the Polish Women taken to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, is sent to the prison being suspected for her work in the Polish underground. Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite, world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. Herta Oberh ...more
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Denise
Mar 29, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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Karen D
Jan 07, 2017 rated it really liked it
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May 10, 2016 marked it as to-read
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May 30, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Aug 06, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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Feb 25, 2018 rated it really liked it
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