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The Plum Tree

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
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Summary

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job - and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive - and finally, to speak out.

Set against the backdrop of the German homefront, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.

©2013 Ellen Marie Wiseman (P)2013 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish World Literature Heartfelt War Survival Holocaust
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"The Holocaust was a horrendous time in world history, and Wiseman has added a personal touch on this era." ( VOYA)
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Apart from the monosyllabic narration this was a great book with a different perspective of WWII from that of a German young lady in love with her childhood Jewish boyfriend. Interesting to hear about the war from everyday Germans perspective and the issues that had post war in sorting out who was SS and Hitlers men amounts the survivors

Interesting German perspective of WWII

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