We meet Zofia in 1942 Warsaw as she works during the day at the Social Welfare Department and helps rescue children from the Warsaw Ghetto after work.
She risks her life and the life of her family as she works for The Resistance, but she says it is worth it if only one life can be saved.
We then meet Lizzie, the great granddaughter of Zofia present day who is heartbroken after yet another miscarriage. She goes to her childhood home and finds photos of her grandmother hidden in a trunk in the attic.
The photos peak her curiosity about her ancestry, and she begins a mission to find out what her great grandmother did during the war. She finds out secrets and about the dangerous life led by her grandmother.
DAUGHTERS OF WARSAW is a marvelous read with strong female characters and cements how people were willing to help others even if their lives were in danger during this dark times in history,
Beautiful writing and a pull-you-in story line that introduces us to Irena Sendler who worked as a nurse in the Polish Underground and saved Jewish children. 5/5
Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
So good….I hope you get to read this book.
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This era has given us such good reading. Horrific history but stories record these happening
ReplyDeleteYes...horrific time in history, but the books allow us to know what happened.
DeleteThanks for your comment, Mystica.