Lilac girls / Martha Hall Kelly.
Material type:
TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print peer picksPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Large print editionDescription: 707 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781432839918
- 1432839918
- 9781410491732
- 1410491730
- 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
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Large Print Fiction | KELLY, MARTHA | In transit from Dr. James Carlson Library to Main Library since 06/28/2024 | 33111010754394 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline s world is forever changed when Hitler s army invades Poland in September 1939 and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.
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.