Good Book. One I couldn't put down. A tragedy. A Jewish family torn apart by the SS coming into the town. First the father, a heart surgeon, who refuses to leave and take his family to safer shores because he does not want to leave his patients. A mother left with 2 daughters and the stigma of being Jewish under Nazi rule. It is told with such deep emotion that the reader will be touched by the multitude of horrific acts occurring. The mother in the story has the great opportunity to save her daughters from the life she has endured but at the last minute chooses only to save the one leaving her all alone sailing away to an Uncle she has never met asking another passenger to please keep an eye on her 6 year old daughter. For what reason I cannot understand she keeps the youngest daughter with her and the girl's life becomes a travesty of abuse. It never made sense to me to force one girl to face the world alone and terrified then keeping the other girl seeing clearly the writing on the wall of where and how life was going to go. The story is so good but like watching a trainwreck you know how it is going to go but you cannot turn away,. The hard times may make you strong, but, why force one to endure hard times when there was a chance for escape. At the end of the story I still did not forgive that woman for denying one daughter her freedom thereby sentencing her to the whims of Jew hating Nazis. I can't even justify the act by the mother being self-ish and wanting to keep her, because, she never seemed love her overly much. There are many things that come to light in this story and it is gripping. Well written. I would highly recommend this story to all who enjoy stories from WWII from Middle Schoolers on up,. The tragic lives will stay with young readers and adults. A good look at people enduring WWII.
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