Those Who Save Us

This is a story that alternates between the present-day Trudy, a history professor collecting first-hand accounts of Germans living during the Holocaust, and the story of her German mother living during the Holocaust. Trudy's mother Anna grows up during the beginnings of the Holocaust and falls in love with a Jewish doctor, which is forbidden, of course.  She becomes pregnant with the doctor's child just as he is taken to the camps. She must hide the true identity of Trudy's father as she runs away from home to work in a local bakery.  She strikes up a friendship with the baker and they join the resistance efforts. Anna and Trudy's survival eventually land in the hands of a high-ranking German official. Without giving too much away, Anna ends up in America married to an American soldier and she refuses to disclose how she survived all those years during the war.  It is through Trudy's research that we finally begin to see what Anna had to endure to save herself and her young child in war-torn Germany.

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