My family on my mother’s side are Jewish, I have family members who died in Auschwitz and I never got to meet. As a result of this heritage, I find myself very drawn to accessing any information that I can about the Holocaust and about Auschwitz in particular. This book did fulfil a desire in me to understand and deeply empathise what horrors my ancestor’s daily lives entailed whilst imprisoned in the camp, however I found that as Lale was treated better than many of the other inmates, I didn’t quite have that access to information that I desired.
The love story of two people who found each other in such a terrible, horrific, harrowing place moved me deeply. However, I think that I would have preferred to read this in a way that felt more factual, rather than being told like a story. Due to this, some aspects of the story really lose the emotion that you should feel as the reader.
The love story of two people who found each other in such a terrible, horrific, harrowing place moved me deeply. However, I think that I would have preferred to read this in a way that felt more factual, rather than being told like a story. Due to this, some aspects of the story really lose the emotion that you should feel as the reader.