@Eaglebauer Said 
I recently did a review of a book called
In Mania's Memory which was a fascinating true story of a Jewish woman who survived the concentration camp at Birkenau and then later on the labor camp at Reichenbach. During her time at Reichenbach she was a young teenager and this female Nazi guard protected her and would sneak food to her. Fast forward thirty years into the 1970s and the Jewish woman was living in Canada where she hired a woman to clean her apartment and there was something familiar about her. She became obsessed at the idea that this woman was the SS guard who saved her life at the labor camp, but the woman denied it vehemently. The author of the book then arranged another twenty five or so years later to have the two women meet again and at the end of the book it is revealed that the woman was indeed the same Nazi who had saved Mania when she was a young Jewish woman. It's really an amazing story and you get to learn the history of both women and how they came to be in their respective stations during the war. As a person with Jewish heritage who has ancestors who were murdered at Auschwitz/Birkenau and Treblinka, I thought it was really illuminating and it really opens your eyes to the reality that a lot of the German people were swept up into this crazy nationalism of the time and many of them didn't agree with or were even aware of what was going on at the time.
In Mania's Memory by Lisa Birnie...check it out!
this sounds like i would check it out do u know if its a movie?
Jul 25, 2011 @ 08:58:25
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