My Mother's Secret My Mother's Secret

My Mother's Secret

A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    • 4.4 • 640 Ratings
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.
 
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic—each party completely unknown to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commander.
 
Told simply and succinctly from four different perspectives—all under one roof—My Mother’s Secret is a testament to the kindness, courage, and generosity of ordinary people who chose to be extraordinary.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
September 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

goldydaone ,

Quick easy read.

Very touching and well written.

aelmsa ,

I loved this book so much!

This is a must read, and a quick read; I read it in its entirety on a rainy afternoon while on vacation the n the mountains. This author is so talented, and quickly wraps the reader up in a whirlwind of connectivity with the characters. I was only sad I finished this story, as I would’ve loved to have kept reading more! Amazing story of the human spirit, and the will to survive, and the selfless determination to help others.

Enchanted Spellcaster ,

Extraordinary!

Simply mesmerizing…this story captivated my attention from the very first sentence.

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