I am Robert Loewen, the author of The Lioness of Leiden. Imagine that you were born between 1910 and 1925, and the war in Europe is raging. You're a university professor in Berlin who holds meetings at your home to resist the oppressive regime that has imprisoned prominent members of the opposition. Or maybe you are a Jewish man who plans to use your linguistic talent to succeed in a Czechoslovakian business venture, but you just received an order to report for transportation to a place called Auschwitz. Perhaps you are a Dutch university student who joins the resistance when the Third Reich invades your country.
How do you fight the Nazis right under their noses? With cunning and courage.
Poignantly drawing on the fascinating first-hand account of his mother-in-law’s lived experiences in the Dutch resistance, Robert Loewen’s historical fiction debut introduces the world to three brave everyday women who defied societal expectations and fought against the Nazi Gestapo in World War II. With The Lioness of Leiden [Greenleaf Book Group, April 4], Loewen shines a light on the female resistance fighters of the Netherlands, who were hunted by the Gestapo and betrayed by spies they thought were their friends.
This isa novel about an improbable relationship carried out under Hitler’s nose at Auschwitz, where over a million people were murdered.
Before writing The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris interviewed Lale Sokolov, who lived in Australia during the latter part of his life.
Lale told the story about how he was assigned by the Germans to place tatoos on the arms of people entering Auschwitz—a concentration camp built for mass extermination. This gave him certain privileges—including access to food—that enabled him to help Gita, another prisoner who he fell in love with.
Ms. Morris expertly weaves Lale’s story into a novel, which drags the reader into the horror and hope of Lale’s improbable narrative.
One of the bestselling books of the 21st century with over 6 million copies sold.
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I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.
Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl.…
This is a history about three young women in the Netherlands who resisted the occupiers by murdering enemy soldiers.
The story told in Three Ordinary Girlsabout young women who assassinated German soldiers had already been told partially in the memoirs of the survivors.
The story of Hannie Schaft, the ring leader and a student at Amsterdam University at the outset of the war, is now part of the history told to students in Dutch schools.
But author Tim Brady does an admirable job of bringing new perspectives to these heroes by weaving a story that reads like a novel even though the facts are documented in his footnotes.
“The book's teenage protagonists and their bravery will enthrall young adults, who may find themselves inspired to take up their own causes.” —Washington Post
An astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground’s most invaluable commodity.
May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it’s entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie…
This is the story of an American diplomat, Virginia Hall, who served in the French resistance.
Virginia Hall, the protagonist inA Woman of No Importance, worked for American and British intelligence. Much of her story was classified until recently.
But once she had access to those documents, author Sonia Purcell was able to weave together a masterly account of this most unusual woman’s brave contributions to the war effort.
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Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
"Excellent...This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance." - NPR
This book is a biography about Mildred Harnack, an American woman who became a leader of the German resistance.
Rebecca Donner is the great-great-niece of the protagonist, Mildred Harnack, in All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days.
Ms. Harnack met her German husband while they were graduate students at University of Wisconsin. While serving as university professors in Berlin, the young married couple was appalled by the rise of Hitler’s National Socialist Party.
They circulated pamphlets that encouraged resistance to the Nazis and passed along secret information to the allies.
The author’s great grandmother, who joined her aunt Mildred in Berlin at the outset of the war, retained an archive of letters that formed the basis for the well-presented story about Ms. Harnack’s courage.
The author found an old man, who had been a boy at the time of the war and carried secret messages for Ms. Harnack, and his recollection filled in the details.
Without these links to the past, we might not have known about this unique aspect of the German resistance, about which little has been written.
Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment - a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.
She recruited Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. When the first shots of the Second World…
This is a meticulously supported history of the women who were imprisoned at the notorious camp 54 miles north of Berlin.
Ravensbrück is a detailed history of the lives of the women imprisoned at the only concentration camp for women. Because the camp was located in East Germany, most of the documents needed to write the history were unavailable to western writers until the cold war ended.
As soon the Berlin wall fell, author Sarah Helm leaped into action, combing through the documents that remained, and from those she found survivors, who told her their stories.
Ms. Helm tells a gut-wrenching story about slave labor, starvation, medical experiments, infanticide, mass killing, betrayal, and heroism that made me feel like I was a witness to daily life at the camp.
Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler—prime architect of the Holocaust—designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small number of the prisoners were Jewish. Ravensbrück was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes, and aristocrats—even the sister of New York’s Mayor LaGuardia. Over six years the prisoners endured forced labor, torture, starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became an extermination camp. Estimates of the final death toll have ranged from 30,000 to 90,000.…
It began with a dying husband, and it ended in a dynasty.
It took away her husband’s pain on his deathbed, kept her from losing the family farm, gave her the power to build a thriving business, but it’s illegal to grow in every state in the country in 1978.
It even brings her first love from high school back; the only problem is that he works for the FBI. Will their occupations implode their romance, or will the opposite happen?
A second chance at love, opposites attract, rags to riches heroine trope story.
It began with a dying husband and it ended in a dynasty.
It took away her husband’s pain on his deathbed, kept her from losing the family farm, gave her the power to build a thriving business, but it’s illegal to grow in every state in the country in 1978. It even brings her first love from high school back; the only problem he works for the FBI. Will their occupations implode their romance or will the opposite happen? A second chance at love, opposites attract , rags to riches heroine trope story.
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