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SS guard who helps Jews escape concentration camps
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Not sure he is SS, but The Beast's Garden might fit. Re-telling of Beauty and the Beast set in Nazi Germany.
And there was a novel just published (last 2 years or so) about a doctor who works in the ghetto (I think he's German and a Nazi?) and he ends up helping a few Jews escape. It's intwined with another plot about a girl who looks Aryan (but really isn't?) and I think an older woman who is a servant or something. I feel like the cover has a girl sitting in a window-sill. And I a very bothered that I cannot recall the name of the book. I checked it out from the library and had to return it but did not put it on my goodreads list here. Sigh. There were some letters ("in the present") as one of the main character's sons pieces the story together later. (Otto or Magda may have been characters names, but I could just be combining books at this point.) Hopefully I will remember later and can add the title...
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The NYT says "the character of Otto Pohl was inspired by Willi Ahrem, a German commandant at a forced labor camp in the Ukrainian town of Nemirov, who warned Jewish laborers in advance of a massacre and helped some to escape, though he couldn’t save many. Today he’s recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem."
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Finding Rebecca (other topics)A Boy in Winter (other topics)
The Beast's Garden (other topics)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (other topics)
Schindler’s List (other topics)
Ok, history lecture over. You are looking for books like Schindler's List, only where it's a guard at the camp who's doing the protecting? Or books about anyone who is protecting their neighbors/friends/strangers who are Jewish?