Title: FOR MARIA
Author: Bruce Judisch
Publisher: OakTara
September 2012
ISBN: 978-1602903258
Genre: Historical
Thousands of Jewish "hidden" children disappeared
into the vortex of a horrific war. And Madeline, a freelance journalist, is
driven to find two of them...her long-lost aunts.
December, 1939. When the Gestapo haul Izaak and Maria
Szpilmann away to Ravensbrück, their twin infants are left behind to die.
Instead, neighbors Gustaw and Ròsa Dudek rescue the babies and flee occupied Poland . They are
never heard from again.
Today. Maria Szpilmann has survived Ravensbrück, Auschwitz,
and Bergen-Belsen . Now she is grandmother to
Madeline Sommers, a young journalist who, despite the odds, passionately clings
to the belief that the lost twins are still alive. Her single-minded mission is
to find them-and reunite them with her failing grandmother-before it's too
late.
FOR MARIA is the sequal to Katia, which I didn’t read. This is the first book by Mr. Judisch
that I have read. The story is engaging. Written in Madeline, and her
husband’s, Brendon’s points-of-view as they struggle to balance work, family,
and their marriage while Madeline searches for relatives she never met.
The story is sweet, at times poignant, and bittersweet. It
is a horrific time period, but evident that Mr. Judisch did his research. If
you are interested in WWII and the effects of it, FOR MARIA is a book that
should be on your to-be-read list. Recommended. $16.95. 348 pages.
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