TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,Martha Hall
TI  - Lilac girls
T2  - Thorndike Press large print peer picks
SN  - 9781432839918
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
KW  - Oberheuser, Herta,
KW  - Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Women
KW  - Nazis
KW  - Europe
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Poland
KW  - History
KW  - Occupation, 1939-1945
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-704)
N2  - 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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