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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Kommandant's Girl

Today's International Holocaust Rembrance Day (Auschwitz was liberated in 1945 OTD) and this book has some relevance since it is about a young Jew who hides out during WWII, ultimately working for/having an affair with a Nazi commander. The author herself worked in a Holocaust related role and later became a law professor.

The book was decent as a whole, basically somewhat light reading though obviously with dark subject matter. The character at times comes off as unrealistic, including a final trip on her own at night to visit her conveniently available father at the ghetto she escaped from earlier. The book also has a confusing sense of time, I not really getting a good sense of exactly when things were occurring. But, overall, again, it is easy reading and kept my interest. It ends with a bit of a cliffhanger -- she escapes but surely isn't totally out of danger. A key character also died though her husband/resistance member apparently didn't.

Overall, I'm not inclined to read more of the author, but the book was okay.