Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine

An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family's role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame from New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum.

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.

Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother-daughter drama, Jenna Blum's Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive.

Jenna Blum is the bestselling author of The Storm Chasers and Those Who Rescue Us, which won the Harold U. Smith Award in 2005. The Ribalow Prize is an award given by the Ribalow Foundation. Jenna was also named on Oprah's list of the Top 30 Women Writers.