Lisa Barr one of my favorite authors has done it again. The Goddess of Warsaw does not disappoint even though you may feel you have read too many Holocaust and WWII books. Ok that was what I was feeling and I should not project that on you. I was going to take a quick flip through this book and return it to the library when I got totally sucked right in.
This is the story of Bina Blonoski is a conglomeration of te women who lived through the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust. She is the fictional character who represents the powerful woman who wanted to fight back and not sit by while the Nazis were killing the Jews of Poland.
Bina, her husband Jakub and his brother Alexander are living in the Ghetto and become involved with a group that is planning the uprising. Jakub is a writer and wants to record the story of their lives in the Ghetto for future generations to see what happened in Poland in 1943. Bina and Alexander follow the leader of the resistance, Zelda to fight back wen the Nazis enter the Ghetto to kill or take the remaining people to concentration camps.
We follow lives of the people in the Ghetto, learn about where they came from and background of their lives before the war. Then we follow Bina as she survives the war and becomes the famous Hollywood actress, Lena Browning. Author Barr gives the reader a picture of how the years of living through hell can affect a person for life. When she learns about Operation Paperclip, her past comes back to haunt her and the assassin, spy that is locked deep inside comes back to her as she deals out a justice of her own.
So well written and engaging you will not want to put it down.
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