This book is an interesting story which follows three widows during Hitler's rise to power and in the years after the war. There are insights into the brutality of that time, but it is more of a character study on how one lives through such a time; daring to ask the question: Does one recognize evil as it unfolds or simply fight to survive? "These faces are no longer broken into good or bad... (rather) a collection of chances and circumstances." p. 332
'The Women in the Castle' is as much about complicity as it is about resistance. It is a story set at the edges of the Holocaust, rather than at its darkest center - in the gray area of everyday lives. It is also a book about the period after the war rather than the war itself...." The story revolves around the lives of three strong women brought together as widows. Two were married to men plotting to assassinate Hitler - and were executed. Their lives merge, separate and still a strong bond exists.
A haunting story of three women and the paths they each took to survive WWll. The strength, love, determination, and morality of each is what makes the story complete and riveting to read.
