I do not know how I feel abut this book. It is the waning days of WW-2 and the story is about two marches, one in the German point of view.
The death march of the young Jewish girls to nowhere was brutal, tragic, hard to read without wanting to throw up! I know these things happened and I read most books about the Holocaust, but for some reason, this one just got to me.
The other march was with a German family, who adored Hitler and his blue eyes, (I wanted to throw up again). They had to leave their beloved home because the horrid Russians were coming, and they were raping women and killing everyone in their path, so they said. They had a British POW with them, young Anna's lover, who was "given" to them to help at their farm. So they trekked west hoping to cross the German lines to the Americans or British. On the way, they were joined by Uri, a Jewish man, dressed as a German Officer, who escaped one of the cattle cars.
There were times I wanted to put this book down and not finish, but I was unable to do that. So I toiled to the end and still can't say that I loved, liked, enjoyed, the book. I was just was just too angry and it was too brutal.
The death march of the young Jewish girls to nowhere was brutal, tragic, hard to read without wanting to throw up! I know these things happened and I read most books about the Holocaust, but for some reason, this one just got to me.
The other march was with a German family, who adored Hitler and his blue eyes, (I wanted to throw up again). They had to leave their beloved home because the horrid Russians were coming, and they were raping women and killing everyone in their path, so they said. They had a British POW with them, young Anna's lover, who was "given" to them to help at their farm. So they trekked west hoping to cross the German lines to the Americans or British. On the way, they were joined by Uri, a Jewish man, dressed as a German Officer, who escaped one of the cattle cars.
There were times I wanted to put this book down and not finish, but I was unable to do that. So I toiled to the end and still can't say that I loved, liked, enjoyed, the book. I was just was just too angry and it was too brutal.
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