Lilac girls /

Kelly, Martha Hall,

Lilac girls / Martha Hall Kelly. - Large print edition. - 707 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - - Thorndike Press large print peer picks . - Thorndike Press large print peer picks. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-704).

Manhattan, 1939. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday's biggest problem is resisting the advances of a married actor. Across the Atlantic Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is affected when Germany declares war on Poland. As tensions rise Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows; she hears about the dire situation at the Ravensbrück all-female concentration camp. Kasia's carefree youth is replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbrück -- and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser -- the two women's lives converge in unprecedented ways.

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Oberheuser, Herta, 1911-1978 --Fiction.


Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)--Fiction.


World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
Nazis--Europe--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction.


Large type books.
Historical fiction.

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